Hugo went nuts on twitter??? You have made my day. I have to look this up now.

I have no idea. I haven't read the accusation. It appears to be taken down in the xojane article and while I haven't looked very hard, I haven't found a complete quote of her accusation. I don't know what details she offered or what a good defense for him would be in this case. You just asked how you can prove "a…

Quite often, yeah. Especially in rape and DV cases.

For the record, I pointed that out because it wasn't splitting hairs, not to weigh in on guilt or innocence. The article claimed he had offered proof of his innocence, but it seems like he hasn't. But I can see how proving a negative can be counterintuitive.

"Refute" means it was proven, not just denied.

I do think it was a personality clash disaster above all. Someone above pointed out that he normally does the "interview the interviewer" thing, so I can see where he'd be thrown badly if that didn't work. I can also see getting put off by the PA remark, but in her defense he did push it. ;) That said, once it became…

Oh, sure. I was holding the film as separate from the interview. In the interview he merely stated it and I found it frustrating the he refused to go further than that. The film, I agree, explored it more. Though I do think it also explored the implications of her being "a phone" (i.e. an infinitely intelligent OS…

I'm a bit confused and if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to know what's binary about it and why you find it unworkable. It may be, I'm just not seeing how.

Interesting. I didn't read her as being glib with the PA remark so much as seriously disliking the movie but knowing this is a fluff entertainment piece and not wanting to invite a director on only to tell him she hated his film.

That you for that context! I can see how that works when there's chemistry with the interviewer. Didn't know that was a normal thing for him.

Same here. Those are a very good 45 minutes, I will grant.

In context I found "I was curious whether the man has found his ideal woman who just works for him as his PA" to be clear, but I suppose it's not the most direct way to state it, I dunno.

Yes.

But why on earth would an interview with him turn into him forcing her to dig deep into her feelings about his film? Of course she ignored his answers - she's not the one being interviewed.

Agreed. It's obvious she didn't want to hammer him, and that he was going to completely shut down if he didn't get his praise, so she didn't do a great job, but she also didn't have much to work with.

I'm sure it is tiring, though in his case he sounded less tired of it and more demanding to be told that the film moved her.

I do agree with you that the interviewer did not do a good job guiding him to those answers. I was just surprised about how trite he was being about his own work, like he couldn't fathom why someone would ask what effect the technology had on the plot, like he hadn't even thought about it. She certainly could've done…

Seriously. I spent the whole interview thinking "You didn't get your cookie, Jonze. Move on. Now you're just sounding like in addition to grubbing for praise, you didn't think about your movie."

I want to say something witty, but I'm basically short-circuiting thinking of so many ways that would improve interviews. Next job interview I don't care about, for example.

Thank you! Though, tongue in cheek, that article put into words some stuff that had been rattling around in my head about the movie.