I'm not going to listen to this.

Ray, you're chanting.

I'm not going to hear this now. And so I've always been the person who encourages people to see movies and not only high-brow

moviegoers and critics, but also people who like lowbrow stuff,

because I grew up even before I was a teenager liking.

I was a big Abbott and Costello fan.

That was a big influence on me.

So I always had appreciation for all kinds of movies.

And what has been great is all the influence these books have had on filmmakers and screenwriters and critics who are actually good.

So that could have been really the downfall if I perpetuated this movement of bad filmmakers.

But the people who like my books tend to be people who make films or write films or write criticism that I myself like.

So that's the source of pride for me.

And I'm delighted when people tell me that my books have not faded away

from their memory. And, you know, I do get this week, every week I get somebody says,

your books change my life. And I say, what? But, you know, I'm humble about it. And I understand

it.

They look for somebody who wasn't, somebody wrote for the mainstream.

I wasn't a mainstream.

Critic had them write for a magazine, and then nobody ever really heard of me.

I sort of came out of the population.

I came out of them.

They always could relate to me.

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