Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes, and they all have opinions. In Hollywood there are, like, 20 snakes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.
Movies are an expensive business.
In America, they shoot budgets and schedules, and they don't shoot films any more. There's more opportunity in Europe to make films that at least have a purity of intent.
Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
In Africa, those who have money - businessmen and banks - do not believe in film.
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.
Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.
In Europe, there are many filmmakers working in the same territory: immigration, and the things that are most disruptive to European life today. That's not a judgment. I think it's good that cinema looks at such things.
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