But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths.
I enjoyed my upbringing, my siblings did, we're polite, we're respectful, but at the end of the day we're young, we like to have fun. But now, more so than ever, the youth has been vilified to the point where it feels like you can't enjoy being young any more, you just have to sit it out and wait until you get old.
It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.
I just don't understand how you can not be concerned about your appearance. From time to time I'm vilified as the person who cares about the look of a teapot - and it's not that I believe my taste is superior, I just can not believe that other people don't care.
It is useful to compare the Branch Davidians with the Mormons of the mid-nineteenth century. The Mormons were vilified in those years in large part because Joseph Smith believed in polygamy.
Are people raised to be villains or vilified like I have become?
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
They have vilified me, they have crucified me; yes, they have even criticized me.
And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.