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So much of selling a film in the industry is about creating a fulcrum where all the pressure comes to bear, and something seems suddenly valuable and approved by an audience. It's amazing how people could pick up tons of films on the cheap, but they don't because they wait until everything is laid out for them.

The economy of film forces you to make choices.

I've been told my movies are difficult to market.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case.

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

Movies cater to what the audiences want.

Ironically, it's easier to raise the money to make the film than it is to have the film find wide distribution.