Sadly, this was in the mid 1990s, when lots of Internet traffic was a trickle by today's standards, about the equivalent of lots of people walking to the corner shop at once to buy the same jazz mag.

With all of the awful films that have come out this year, people want to single out The Box? What's wrong with them? Fucking Twilight 2 is out tomorrow. Can't we hold our breath for even one more day before we start bandying that phrase about?

But I feel like I’m closing View Askew for the time being, and now I’m opening a new book and I’ll see for a while if I can be this filmmaker where I don’t write everything that I direct, or create everything that I direct.