Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?
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My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.
There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.
I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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.
I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.