So many movies get made, and so many go to VOD, which is a market I admire.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.
Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.
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.
Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
Movies cater to what the audiences want.
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Movies are an expensive business.
The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.