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" But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife. "
Character
Responsibility
Best
" But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together. "
Two
You
Doing
" Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful. "
Hateful
Everybody
Deceitful
" Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well. "
Everyone
Well
Think
" Everyone has a story. "
Everyone
Story
" First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that. "
Food
Say
Place
" I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me. "
Chose
Think
Like
" If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. "
Neighbors
Camera
Scary
" I have a healthy view of what one can do with art. "
View
Art
Healthy
" I make movies I want to see. "
See
Make
Want
" I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road. "
Road
Time
Women
" In a relationship you have to open yourself up. "
Yourself
You
Open
" I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films. "
Bits
I See
Me
" I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle. "
Middle
Think
Victim
" I think the more the actor lets you know what he thinks of the character, the less the audience cares - like a comedian who laughs at his own jokes. "
You
Audience
Character
" I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate. "
Painting
Like
People
" I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching. "
Story
Me
Tell
" I was always looking for the most dramatic emphasis. "
Always
Most
Looking
" I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt. "
Sense
Because
Good-Looking
" I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. "
Lying
Kind
Women
" I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction. "
Thought
More
Science
" Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even. "
Time
You
Past
" My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self. "
Self
Best
Best Friend
" My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time. "
Time
World
Think
" People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape. "
Just
Movies
People
" People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life. "
People
Life
Money
" Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there? "
You
People
Go
" There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen. "
Want
Care
Church
" Unrequited love is always a great thing. "
Love
Love Is
Unrequited
" We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch. "
Humans
Bunch
Fairly
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