I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.
The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.
A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.
A director without a vision is a catastrophe.
Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing.