I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then y'know that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.
I don't think the competition's so rough within the majority of movies made...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.