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What was it like to watch “Vengeance” with a crowd at Tribeca Festival?
How did you get Mindy Kaling to go to the premiere instead of the Tonys, which were the same night? [Kaling was a producer on “A Strange Loop,” which won best musical.] I wanted to make a movie for everybody — for Texans too. Some people I’ve worked with worried, and a few were tickled by the idea:. And it was the complete opposite. I was so hard on myself to make sure I never did anything like that. It got to the point where I had to make sure I wasn’t too hard on the New York side because I had found so much in the Texas side I could really bring to life.That came straight out of my life.
Yes. On set [for ‘Vengeance’], I made the decision I was going to enjoy every day. Because I’m a perfectionist. I’m going to do my best no matter what, so I might as well enjoy it. And in fact, I’ll probably even do a better job by enjoying myself. And that’s definitely a Tarantino lesson. That guy enjoys himself, but he would never let a frame suffer. Filming is so finite and you’re at the mercy of so many chance elements.