Excerpt from Conversations with Wilder
I was hoping that it would find an audience…. An they didn’t get it at all, lots of them. Some discerning critics lauded it up and it was their favorite picture of mine. But many at the time did not want to face that people are sensation-grabbing, and any time you see an accident, you know, you see people coming and staring at it. They love to see … to see. They can be smug about Princess Di and the paparazzi, but then they sit in the theater and say, “All right, entertain me.” But this was not exactly the entertainment they wanted to see.
