The VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston Strangler is to the woman alone.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.
They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.
I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.
I have two young kids. So my VCR, like, you kind of have to sift through a lot of, like, 'Animal Mechanicals,' 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.'
In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.
To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.
The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
There seem to be more women producers than men.
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?