Film is my big problem. I am involved too much. I love too much. I've been trying to resolve it for 35 years now, but for now, I have to keep making them.
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I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.
The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.
I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.
Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.
Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
Once in a while, I need to go out of my way to do different films, to exploit all commercial angles to cater to the masses.
You do a film for a short time period - you put it all out there and move on.
I'm in the process of working out an arrangement to make some very, very, very small films in the midst of all these films and maybe that will help. But you get tired of talking. You just want to do it.
I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.
The toughest thing about making movies is being apart from your family. One of the things I try my best to do is call my wife every day to keep up to speed with what's going on in her life. And tell her what's going on with mine.
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