It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
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It's just so hard to get movies made, especially comedies.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
It's hard enough to get any movie made, and when you take on these tough genres - and I've done it a couple times - it just makes the whole struggle more.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
It's just hard to get an independent film made.
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