The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.
Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
The public scrutiny element they don't teach you in film school. So few people are ever subjected to it.
All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.
There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.
There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.
There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.