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If you get to bring a little movie on the festival circuit, it's a nice experience because you get to see it with an audience. People who go to festivals to watch films are usually a little more eager to enjoy them. It's exciting because it's like you're going to the film's opening night at every festival.

The whole idea of a festival to me is that filmmakers get to interact. You see someone strolling, you get to meet them and tell them you like their work, you admire their story.

You go to a festival, you know you're not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I've made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

I know doing movies is where I need to be. That's where my audience wants to see me.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

When I think about myself as a teenager going to festivals, you look to the main stage as the main entertainment of the night.

This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.

The frustrating part of it is that you're generally known for what you did last. I've had the privilege of doing some very cool independent films that, a lot of the time, the general public doesn't see unless you're at a film festival or you're into that kind of movie.