What is the connection between that field and making low-budget movies?
Taoism. This whole company is run according to Taoism. Michael and I both believe in Taoism, that you flow with nature, and that the little blade of grass that bends with the wind will outlast the giant Paramount — the giant oak tree that has the arrogance to stand up to the forces of nature. And the yin and the yang, the whole thing of a dualistic universe. Our movies, by the way, are perfect examples. Our movies are so out there that they come around the other side as art. As I have mentioned, the Cinemathèque Française has done a retrospective. Pretty much every country in Europe has had major Troma retrospectives. Most of the theaters in this country that show our movies are art houses, like Landmark Theatres [in the West, especially the San Francisco Bay Area]. They don’t show “Forrest Gump” there; they mainly show art films. Those are the places that show Troma movies. The Music Box in Chicago. An art theater in Boston just did a Troma retrospective. Well, of course, they’ve got
