 while you're making those films. You mustn't make the distinction between genre on the one hand and personal on the other. A lot of the great filmmakers, you know, whether it's everything from John Ford to Sergio Leone, make genre their own. They reinvent genre. They don't parody it. They don't make a comedy about it. They take it and they reinvent it. And that's what he was doing with the gangster film and it's what he was doing with the Western. So I said, no, you must write about this. Why can't you take this guy seriously? You know, he's a prophet without honor in his own country.