But I still blame Schrader. I blame him for giving the same spineless excuse a lot of directors of fiascos claim after the fact, the big bad studio made me. As if they couldn’t say no. Well, then they wouldn’t have made it. Good. Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie? Then spend the rest of their lives making excuses for it, or cringing whenever they watch it, like Schrader does on the DVD commentary?
