White Wife Black ---- #4

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I call the director, Dick, Wednesday afternoon, October 27, 2004.

How did you get into the adult industry?

"It was about twelve years. I needed a job. I answered an ad in the paper. It was Scott Taylor at National Video Supply. I worked there for a few years making coffee and doing deliveries.

"Then I went over to Rosebud, owned by Alex de Renzy and Mike Rubinstein. I was still doing deliveries and warehouse stuff. One day in 1999, Mike Rubinstein needed somebody to shoot a movie. I told him that that was what I wanted to do. He handed me a camera and told me to do it.

"Then he started Devil's Films and I started shooting for Devil's Films."

Dick's shot about 150 films.

Which one are you most proud of?

"That's like asking somebody which of his children he loves more. I love all of them. You make dinner. Sometimes people love it. Sometimes they hate it. But making dinner is the fun part.

"I stay under the radar. I don't play up the publicity end of the business as much as people want me to. Attention is not why I do it. I like making the movies. Having this conversation with somebody like you is not something I would've considered a while back but now I'm excited about it because I understand it can help me make movies."

What do you love and hate about the industry?

"What I love about it inspires something I hate about it -- that it is the last bastion of American capitalism. It's free from the political and corporate influences of the malling of America. Ma and Pop businesses can compete. If you try to open a hardware store, Wallmart is going to put you out of business within a year. You have a chance to start a company and let the marketplace decide whether you are successful. You have a lot of rebels, people who like to put on that mantle and wear it like a badge of honor. They're really not.

"It's under the radar. Because of the moral issues, the large corporations stay out of it, which makes it more attractive for somebody like me, bohemian-looking.

"What I hate about the industry is how it is treated by the people who want to control it and can't... The Cal-OHSAs..."

What are your some of your best-known movies?

"The Gangland series for Devils Films. Mike Rubinstein bought a Ferrari. It must've made him some money. I did a lot of trannie stuff. I worked with Skintight at Legend. We won an AVN award for Chunky On The Fourth Of July:

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"I go for the specialty stuff. As John Waters said, life without obsession is meaningless."

Are any of these fetishes yours?

"No. A lot of people turn their perversity into cash. My sexuality is normal compared to my movies. I'm boring compared to my work. I've been seeing the same girl for five years. She happens to be asian. That's not necessarily a fetish for me.

"I have to be honest with you. I guess I have no oral fetish. I'd have to admit to that."

Dick says he's never dated a porn star. "Dipping your hand in the cookie jar can affect the kind of movie you make. I can't afford to alter the relationship I have with them while making a movie by having a personal interest."

What do you tell civilians about you do for a living?

"I don't bring it up. I find that it is a fork in the road. It is the beginning of a conversation or the end of a conversation. I try to suss people out. I was golfing with some strangers. One guy sold plumbing supplies. I looked around at who I was talking to. Typically, I tell people, whether they are in or out of the industry, that I make dirty movies. You can get a vibe from people about whether or not they... Sometimes I'll tell them just to f--- with 'em.

"I was in Ohio at my grandmother's funeral. I'm sitting next to a mid-level manager at the [local] GM plant. I was sad. He was like, so, what do you do, pal? I looked over. He had a white collar on. I said, I make porno movies. In his face. That ended that conversation. Sometimes I use that as a bludgeon to make people go away. But that was when I was younger and more angry. I'm over that now.

"Now I don't say anything. I don't need to have the same conversations over and over again about the public's perception about what I do. If somebody has an open mind, some perception of humanity, and I think we can have a conversation based on that, I'll always engage them. But most of the time you're dealing with perception and I'm not here to fight that fight. I don't have the patience for that changing people's minds thing."

Have you noticed any change in people's perceptions of the industry in the twelve years you've been in it?

"I've noticed a change in the people who are involved. It's gotten more personal. When I started, they were businesses. They were trying to fly under the radar and not attract too much attention. They were happy to be left alone. The old timers are still like that. Now I see people getting into the music like a rap music video. Look at my car. I've got a big dick. Look at my bitches. The last six years people get involved [in porn] to get noticed."