I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.
The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.
The movie business has been in enormous flux. It's always changing, and you've got to scramble. The Internet came along and devoured the DVD backend of the movie business. Suddenly you're watching dollars turn into nickels, and that's interesting to me.
I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.
I often wonder why people remake movies. Is there just a lack of imagination out there that they can't come up with an original idea?
The movie business is very twisted, out of site, out of mind, you know.
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.
There's a vast difference between marketing a movie and the movie itself. You try to cast as wide and broad a net as possible.
I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.
The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.