I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.
I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.
It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
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.
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.