Sure ric there ARE plenty of bad directors out there. And I never said he was a bad director (mediocre at best) just that he was a one-trick pony. It just infuriates me the levels to which he has to shove his personal-side on the public... I've known such people in real life and its usually a sign that they realize that if they left their work to stand on its own people would quickly cease to care about them.

M. Night, prior to his last film, had a 'controversial' documentary(fake) made about himself to be aired on SciFi networkwhich served to take the spotlight away from the film itself. And now just prior to his NEXT film we have to hear about his 'woe is me' life in Hollywood... except all the points in the article I quoted above that the studio execs brought up are mainly valid! And why should any studio put up the money if they don't think they'll turn a profit- it IS a business after all and like I said I'm sure he has enough money to finance it himself. Though he probably has his invested in the M. Night Memorial Museum of Film History which, as you exit the museum itself, drops you into a large bucket of poo- a 'surprise ending'! But I digress...

As far as Boll as a director yes of course he's shit but that is purely the studios fault for letting him direct films at all. I don't remember any whiny 'tell-all' books from him or interviews in which he claims to be Orson Welles reincarnated (as M. has basically done about Hitchcock).