Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.
A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
The fact is that Hollywood, from as early as the sixties to the present time, has ghettoized cinema into the big industry, a marketing industry. In doing this, the audiences have lost touch with the aspects of film which were to be informative and educational and even spiritual.
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.