You have to fight every day to stop censoring yourself. And you never have anyone else to blame when you do. What happens to artists is that it’s not that somebody’s standing in their way, it’s that their own selves are standing in their way. There is a compromise made if you work on a commercial film and the compromise really isn’t how or what you do, the techniques you use, or even the content, but really the compromise is beginning to feel a lack of confidence in your innermost thoughts. And if you don’t put these innermost thoughts on the screen then you are looking down on not only your audience but the people you work with, and that’s what makes so many people working out there unhappy. They say, ‘Well, I’ll make a lot of money and then I’ll come back and do this later on,’ and the truth of the matter is, of course, that they never do. These innermost thoughts become less and less a part of you and once you lose them then you don’t have anything else. I don’t think anyone does it purposely, it’s just that a lot of people are not aware of losing these things. I found myself losing them too, and then suddenly I woke up and by accident, by sheer accident of not getting along with something, something inside, you know, you say, ‘No, I must struggle with this thing,’ without any knowledge of what it is making you do this. You fight and consequently you don’t work and when you don’t work you go back and reevaluate yourself, reevaluate your life, your relationship to the world or whatever it is that’s important to you. In that period of time I gathered a great deal of food, not energy anymore out of my youth, not a feeling of wanting to conquer anything, not ‘Yes, it can be done, let’s do it, what’s the problem?’ but a feeling of saying that so many people have so much to say and there are so many really worthwhile things to say that it seems impossible that we could cut ourselves off from this whole avenue of enormous excitement.