Three huge misconceptions here, posted repeatedly:

Well said, AJ. And no, I don't see the show conspiring (and Effie agreeing) to make her look this bad, just for the sake of making interesting television.

It's a sadly revealing, ultimately devastating interview. Effie says she made HBO recut the edit of her phone conversation with Farley, and now the cut actually reflects what happened.

Jason cuts a gaunt figure; he could be the love child of Crypt Keeper and Tom Noonan.

Clearly not. Indeed, in this episode, Effie makes comments that are openly contemptuous of Jason. That he was able to get an additional $300,000 simply by being quietly stubborn had to astonish and dismay her.

"I'm not gonna be ignored, Dan!"
Glenn Close, Fatal Attraction

Viewers judging Jason from the two minute clip posted on Project Greenlight's website are working with incomplete information. His complete short (couldn't find the link, sorry) is vastly more accomplished that that two minute clip would indicate, and much that happens flows from that fact.

Indeed, that's exactly what Godzilla said after repeatedly asking: "What's my motivation here?" and getting no answer from the director. He then called his agent, and sulked in his trailer for a spell before returning to the set.

I don't know if I'd call her a monster, but she seems absolutely clueless as to the hierarchy of power within this film. In that hierarchy—fair or not—multi-billion dollar grossing writer-director Farrelly is Godzilla, and she's a bug on the windshield. You don't act the way she acted when he inadvertently stumbles…

Unless HBO is secretly telling Effie to play the heavy, a line producer never tells a director what he "has her permission to do" regarding an artistic decision, regardless of how stupid that decision may seem. Period.