Artwork can be a portal, a kind of rethinking and reseeing of the world as we live it.
Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.
It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.