I congatulate you on your 15 minutes but regret the extent to which are enjoying it and are "developing" it. You have made a movie that has addressed a controversial issue--cynical to some, personal to others, possibly unknown a minority--and you are riding its coat tails to other, equally promising controversial projects/derisions. As a filmmaker, I suppose this is your right and your calling, but as a social critic, I think you are a contadiction to the persona you have created. I don't think it's responsible for you to develop a film or TV "personality" based on this work. Your have created a persona, like it or not, of a concerned documentary filmmaker, but you have (d)evolved into a guy who makes statements for the sake of making statements so that he can be controversial so that he can maybe be famous. You cheapen yourself, and you insult the people you are trying to help. As a member of the choir to whom you are preaching, I have come to doubt your sincerity and your objective. Your very purpose seems to be undone by the extent to which you desire notoriety for creating controversy. It's like you found a sore spot common to a niche of people and are picking at it, but it's not your own. I guess the word is self-satisfied. Well, good luck with that, but it will be short lived, and nobody likes a self-satisfied cinic. Prove your intentions (or don't, I guess I don't really care), but at least don't unprove them....

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