Nah, I mean if that's what you want to do. I wouldn't do it.

There's no condition under which you would sell or give your sperm to a woman who really wanted a child?

I'm married, happily married with two kids. I'm not gonna have any kids outside my marriage.

What if someone you loved really, really, really wanted a baby, and they felt that you were the only one they trusted. You don't think you could do that?

Nope.

Does that come out of a Christian-based morality?

No. I just won't do it. I ain't having no kids that I'm not bringing up. They can get somebody else. And I know a lot of guys who would do it.

Were you thinking about those guys when you made the film, the guys who are making different choices about what it means to be a man?

Like the metrosexual and all that stuff?

Well, I think many American men are reevaluating the models their fathers provided and are coming to different conclusions about how they want to live as men.

What, this is a trend? I didn't hear about this. I missed that one.

Yeah, where have you been? You haven't been watching the movies, they are all about new masculinity, from "The Hulk" to "Jersey Girl," "The Stepford Wives" to "Daddy Day Care," even "Breakin' All the Rules." And don't forget "Gigli."

Oh, I missed that one.

"Gigli" is a very interesting film in terms of gender dynamics. A straight man is seduced by a Buddhism-reading, yoga-doing lesbian, and then decides to drop out of the mob to try to find a more "pure and clean place to be." I don't believe we've seen that story before.

Well, what I think a lot of men are realizing is that the stuff we've been taught doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Men can't cry, men can't show emotion, that kinda stuff, you know? All those mantras about what a real man can do and what they shouldn't do. It's bogus.

Well, were you thinking about that while you were making the film?

Not really. (laughs)

Well, what were you thinking about?

We're thinking about a lot of things. We're thinking about corporate corruption. We're thinking about an individual's moral compass, the ramifications of choices that they make in their lives. We're thinking about how history overlooks some people like Frank Wills [the security guard who exposed the Watergate scandal].

Some have labeled the film anti-Bush. Is the film also an attack on the president?

Well, I don't think showing a $3 bill with him and an Enron watermark on it is an endorsement of him, that's for sure.

Yeah, what was the thinking behind that?

You never head that saying, "Bogus like a $3 bill?"

No, actually, I haven't.

Go to any store and try to spend a $3 bill, see what happens. He lied to the world. This whole weapons of mass destruction thing, that's just the beginning.

Can you see yourself making a film that answers more questions than it asks?

With the subject matter that I deal with, how can I provide answers? How can I provide answers to drug abuse like you see in "Jungle Fever"? Or the fire that can exist in interracial relationships? Anybody who tries to answer that is a fool.

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