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W. Paul Apel on The Valley Obscured by Smog 1.) Where did your obsession with Ed Wood begin? Even though I'd heard of Ed Wood in passing before, my obsession really began with the Tim Burton film. Roger Ebert said that if you go to the movies enough, eventually you'll see yourself on screen. That's how I felt watching it. I'm not a cross-dressing B-movie filmmaker, but I identified with someone who had the drive to make movies with his gang of misfits while also having the weakness of saying "good enough" and moving on. I'd never seen that combination portrayed...