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Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

It's just hard to get an independent film made.

You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

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

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.

You have a big success, and it's still not easy to make a movie.

And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.