I was listening to an interview with Marilyn Manson this evening I was thinking at something that he said. Somebody asked him about you him having fans and how he felt about the fact that a lot of people did not like him. He made the comment that anything of quality that’s worth doing there is always going to be a group of people who hate you and don’t like it and if you don’t have people that hate you for what you’re doing and what you’re doing doesn’t really mean anything. I would have to say that I agree with this assessment. Art is the best example of this. Whether it’s music for film or painting, if what you’re doing please everybody it probably is not very important and probably isn’t saying anything worth saying. This does not mean your focus should be to make people mad, though it certainly Can be, but it does mean that the inevitable outcome of doing anything of quality is that you will have a group of people that do not like what you were doing. This is sort of how I felt about the cartoon ever working on Coal Republic. In CoaI Republic the aim is to address a lot of the negative issues of living in this region. This includes unemployment, drug use and a general nihilistic attitude towards life. I address gun violence and really violence in general. I addressed a lot of issues from different points of view from both sides of the aisle. This is because I think a person who is educated on any topic is not going to fall entirely on party lines on either side. Like so many things, I think most of the answers are in the middle somewhere. I imagine once this is done that liberals won’t like it because it’s too conservative and conservatives won’t like it because it’s too liberal. This may make it a commercial failure but so is every other film I’ve ever made. That’s just the way goes sometimes I think.
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