SUBMITTED BY Timbo

November 14, 2003 — Stephen Glass, the disgraced journalist who made up multiple stories in The New Republic magazine and eventuall got caught, regards the new movie "Shattered Glass" as a "horror film".

"It was extremely painful and difficult to watch. There were large chunks of it, or at least significant chunks of it, that I looked at the ground, I didn't look at the screen. ... That being said, it's a good movie," Glass says. "It was a tour through the worst parts of my life, the parts of my life I'm the most ashamed of -- things I wish I had never done, and things I feel a great deal of remorse for."

"The one thing that the movie doesn't get is, I don't think there's ever an expression of why or what it felt like to be the person doing this," Glass says in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "I think that's the area where the movie sort of is incomplete."

Glass didn't profit from or cooperate in making the movie, and Ray concedes "I'm sure if he and I would have been speaking regularly, I would have gotten manipulated into showing that inner turmoil. But I don't think that would have made it a better movie."

At a recent screening, the film's writer-director urged audience members to ask themselves whether they thought Glass was a sociopath, a pathological liar, or just a guy who made some bad choices.

Ray doesn't suggest an answer himself, and his movie doesn't offer an explanation.

"I think you could spend a long time with Stephen and come away just more confused. It also by the way just doesn't interest me that much," says Ray, whose screenplay credits includeHart's War and Volcano. "I'm interested in how people relate to the truth vs. personality. Why Stephen did what he did is almost immaterial to that story."

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