I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

  • -- Todd Solondz 托德索朗兹

我的意思是,还有很多导演可能更擅长改编小说,也更乐于按照特定的流派改编。我希望有一天能做那样的工作,但不管怎样,我太被自己的材料吸引了。

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I've always drawn, for example, and I did consider when I was younger, it was either do I become an actor or do I become an animator cartoonist at that point. Do I work at Disneyworld or something and do animated cells or something?

举个例子,我一直在画画,我年轻的时候确实考虑过,要么当演员,要么当漫画家。我是在迪斯尼乐园工作还是做动画细胞什么的?

I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.

我认为自己在文学上就像一个熟练的车工,或者编织篮子的工人;一个陶艺家,也许:我做一些人们想买的稍微有趣的东西。

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

我被女性角色所吸引;并不是所有人都是坚强的性格。