It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population.
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.
It's a big battle to bring quality stuff into theaters across America, for sure.
It's a harder time to make original, less conventional movies. But God, we need them!
The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.