My response to you:

Kevin Smith — The best thing to do to understand his film-making is to check out “An Evening with Kevin Smith”, which is just him answering questions at different Universities. It’s really funny, and after seeing it, I sort of forgave all the shit in his films, because he’s not claiming to be doing anything other than trying to have a career and write funny stuff; and he’s always done both. Also, I think “Chasing Amy” is really outstanding — and it was made for $250,000 after he had $10,000,000 or something for “Mall Rats”.

Rodriguez & Tarentino — I think they just love movies so much, are so immersed in movies, including shitty movies, that they just make whatever kind of film they want, which in some cases is a great movie, and in some cases is a shitty movie. I also think El Mariachi gets a hell of a lot of credit for being subtitled. In English, I think this movie would seem like. . . Well, a $7000 version of Desperado.

Michael Bay — Uh. . . I think with the scale of projects that guys like Michael Bay get involved with, they aren’t really the ones responsible for the creative quality of the show. They’re project managers, and sometimes their staff can hit it out of the park, and sometimes they suck. They get paid so much money, like $15 million or whatever, to shoot a script that might be horrible, might have a horrible cast attached to it, and they do their job, make stuff explode, get it done on time, near budget, and walk away with their $15 million.

Alright, that’s a long comment. . . So there.