The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect the more people seem to respect you.
I love sports and I love sports movies.
Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received....
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material and that's a creepy thing to do.