1.)
I hate and renounce as a coward anyone who thinks they can cast
a TV star and still be independent. 2.) I hate and renounce as
cowards all those poseurs attempting to pass off their craftily
conceived conformity as cutting edge. 3.) I hate and renounce
as a coward every director who wastes film stock shooting a radio
play disguised as a movie. 4.) I hate and renounce as a coward
the next producer who tries to pass off another drab, middle class
generation X model as white trash. 5.) I hate and renounce as
a coward all those lazy bastards who use the lyrics of a song
to set the emotional tone of a scene or name their film after
some 60's pop tune. 6.) I hate and renounce as a coward those
who have destroyed glamour in the name of some silly simplistic
notion of realism. 7.) I hate and renounce as a coward any filmgoer
who sits through a universally praised film they think is a piece
of shit and doesn't stand up and scream at the screen. 8.) I hate
and renounce as a coward any creative artist who chooses a difficult
subject and punks out in their execution. 9.) I hate and renounce
as a coward any filmmaker who hasn't taken the time to learn their
craft. 10.) I hate and renounce as a coward those who would convince
me that the "American Independent Film" has become anything
but a greedy, cynical attempt to shove the European Art Film off
American screens. 11.) I hate and renounce as a coward any editor
who allows themselves to be persuaded by any being (whether living
or dead ) to cut back and forth on every line of dialogue, as
if Dragnet wasn't bad enough. 12.) I hate and renounce as a coward
any filmmaker whose every character doesn't reveal some aspect
of their soul. 13.) I hate and renounce as a coward any filmmaker
who isn't' constantly struggling against the reality of their
being paid to perpetuate the lies we live by. 14.) I hate and
renounce as a coward those artists who have made "updated"
film noirs that would more at home in a Vogue spread on Mr. Roger's
Neighborhood. 15.) I hate and renounce as cowards all those countless
film festival organizers whose sole goal is to make money. 16.)
I hate and renounce as a coward every movie critic who has allowed
themselves to become nothing but a high paid movie studio flunky.
17.) I hate and renounce as a coward all those cretins who believe
that film history begins in the 60's, 50's, 40's, 30's or 20's...
18.) I hate and renounce as a coward any moron who makes or believes
in 10 Best Lists, let alone 100 Best Lists. 19.) I hate and renounce
as a coward the next discovery who passes of their credit card
financed, dull as dishwater, coming of age "epic" as
anything but a drab piece of shit. 20.) I hate and renounce as
a coward those idiots who attempt to pass off their lack of style
as somehow being more "honest." 21.) I hate and renounce
as a coward those marketing geniuses who tell me that they have
to know how to sell a movie before they make it. 22.) I hate and
renounce as a coward writers who pass off their bland, pathetic,
politically correct whining as insightful social criticism. 23.)
I hate and renounce as a coward anyone who recycles old movies
as a substitute for personal experience. 24.) I hate and renounce
as a cowards the vast industry that's sprouted up to assist technically
inept, spiritually bankrupt, morally corrupt, culturally deprived
individuals make their "personal vision." 25.) I hate
and renounce as a coward any brain-washed cretin who thinks scripts
are anything but an invention of producers to control the creative
process. 26.) I hate and renounce as a coward anyone who doesn't
believe that the camera and microphone are the only true writing
instruments of a film. 27.) I hate and renounce as a coward any
director of photography who lights a scene that looks like a battle
between three different schools of painting. 28.) I hate and renounce
as a coward anyone who makes another irredeemably terrible movie
from one of Jim Thompson's darkly, sublime books. 29.) I hate
and renounce as a coward the very next "indie" filmmaker
who recounts how they financed their film with credit cards, luring
countless suckers to subsidize some conglomerate's independent
film division's development fund. 30.) I hate and renounce as
a coward anyone, whatsoever, who appears in TV commercials for
independent film with some stupid, curly-headed little witch.
31.) I hate and renounce as a coward all those simplistic, moronic,
critics who contribute to the creation of a simplistic, moronic
audience. 32.) I hate and renounce as cowards all those who know
the truth of the above, but profitably continue to remain silent.