If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

I make theater for myself, and if someone else can derive some value from it, fine.

The proliferation of the chain theater has made it tough for independent historic theaters to book first-run movies and stay economically viable,

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.