"Get rid of the William Blake shit," the director says, regarding the poetic underpinnings of a Polatikin screenplay.
Those are... Oh shit... Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit.' Then he said nothing for a while".
"Ohhh damn, the director of Sparkle is full of shit.
It is hard to see him as "the shit" fellow New Wave director François Truffaut fell out with in the 1970s.
Sam is highly acclaimed, quite rightly so, but it wasn't "Oh shit, this guy, the director of American Beauty, is eclipsing everything I ever wanted".
His working method puts him at the cutting edge of science fiction multimedia: Ghosts With Shit Jobs had several directors, all collaborators worked for free, filming took two months and as the favours rolled in it took another three years to complete the film.
The creators of Shit People Say to Women Directors see their work as a form of crisis intervention.
The regrets about speaking out are why the creators of Shit People Say to Women Directors decided to keep all submissions to the site, and themselves, anonymous.
The Tumblr blog, titled "Shit People Say to Women Directors", is designed as a platform "to expose some of the absurd barriers women face in the entertainment business", according to its creators.
Nicole Kassell first heard about the Tumblr blog Shit People Say to Women Directors last week, when a female film-maker friend she was dining with mentioned it on the assumption she already knew of it.
This is the last real weekend of summer so enjoy it while it lasts by watching some movie trailers and talking shit about lazy horror film directors.
