As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.
I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.
Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.