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Being a popular director or actor's son can be frightening in this industry. What if you are not able to make it?

The usual key to getting films made seems to be a producer's terrier-like determination not to let it go. Unfortunately, such producers often seem prone to sinking their claws into mediocre projects.

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.

When you work in film, you learn to appreciate a distributor. You can have this great little film, but if you don't have a distributor, you are sitting in your living room with a great little film.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

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.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

Contrary to what many writers imply about the process, nobody forces a writer to sell his work to the film industry.