As soon as you make some films that people like, you'll be sent material, and that can come from anywhere.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.
In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.
Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.
Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.
The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.
Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.