If he's a sufferer, so are Ritchie and Tarantino (Scorsese's got a tertiary version, obviously).
Me: Looking forward to Public Enemies?
M: Someone ought to have a word with Michael Mann. I think he needs counselling.
Me: What?
M: There's something seriously wrong with his choice of directing projects. Crime, crime, more crime, and oh look, even more crime. If they gave him Shrek 4 to make he'd probably tool up the big green fella with a couple of Uzis and turn the donkey into a cokehead pimp.
Me: Er, what about Last of the Mohicans?
M: Apart from all the guns in it you mean? That was a crime against James Fenimore Cooper...
Hmm. Point.
M: Someone ought to have a word with Michael Mann. I think he needs counselling.
Me: What?
M: There's something seriously wrong with his choice of directing projects. Crime, crime, more crime, and oh look, even more crime. If they gave him Shrek 4 to make he'd probably tool up the big green fella with a couple of Uzis and turn the donkey into a cokehead pimp.
Me: Er, what about Last of the Mohicans?
M: Apart from all the guns in it you mean? That was a crime against James Fenimore Cooper...
Hmm. Point.