The films are a road map through emotional and intellectual terrains that provide a solution to how one can save pain. As people we know that we are petty, vicious, violent and horrible, but my films make an effort to contain the depression within us and to limit the depression to those areas that we can actually solve. They represent the assertion of a human spirit. If, along the way, in A Woman Under the Influence you find something that you didn’t know before or if you find something out about people that you might have thought one way about and then possibly might think another way about, then it has some value. An experience that leaves the spectator vacant is not art.