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“They do those for the dumbest – like ‘This is how Mario ends,’” Duffield joked about “ending explained” pieces. “I don’t read anything. Yeah, I think it’s really unhealthy. I don’t like good or bad. I try to avoid it all. There’s an interview with George C. Wolfe about Rustin. I read where he talked about how he doesn’t read things. He feels like it gives away his power. And I don’t know if I’d go that big, but I get what he means where it feels like I don’t want my thought process to be about even the next thing I’m doing. Like, ‘Oh, well everyone thought this or this.’ … I kind of am just a head down, do-the-job guy, and hopefully people like things enough that I get to make another one. But beyond that, I don’t partake.”
He continued, “Sometimes people send me stuff, and the only times I really get mad is when they’re wrong. And not about their opinion, but sometimes on Spontaneous, there would be a bunch of reviews that people sent me about – they would talk about things that didn’t happen at all in the movie – and that would really piss me off. And I was like, ‘This is so dumb that I’m getting pissed off.’ People would say I use the same music as Call Me by Your Name. And I was like, ‘It’s not. It’s a different Sufjan Stevens song.’ But I would want to [imitates typing], you know? I am in my thirties, this is stupid. So I avoid it all.”
Stay tuned for more from our interview with Brian Duffield. No One Will Save You is now streaming on Hulu.
