I just got done watching Life in Wartime

And as usual went on my spree of reading reviews, and found an interview with the director, Todd Solondz. The second page is packed with some quotable quotes:

Just over a decade later, the indie-film business is held aloft by tasteful crowd pleasers like Juno and The Kids Are All Right—”movies that would have been produced by studios in the old days,” Solondz notes—while audience-agitating auteurs such as himself plug away on the margins.

and:

“I never thought, in a million years, I would ever want to teach,” he says. “Then I learned that they could give me a generous arrangement, and it could make my life much more manageable. It’s strange, because they have a school in Singapore, so I teach there in the fall for six weeks and then I teach in the spring for 12 weeks in New York. Singapore is a lot like Boca Raton, Florida—only instead of the Jews, you’ve got the Chinese.”