It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.
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There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.
Even on a $100 million film, people will complain that they haven't got enough money and enough time, so that's always going to be an element in filmmaking.
Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.
If we got $100 million dollars to make a movie, I don't know if we should be making a $100 million dollar movie our first time out.
I got to learn from the American audience. Hearing what it is they're not getting. These are audiences, 35 to 40, an older demographic that controls seven to 10 trillion dollars. And the producers and distributors have convinced themselves this group doesn't go to the movies.
First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.
The only economic paradigm that movies have ever known is capitalism. There were no church sponsors or state patronage. The idea was that if you'd pay to see it, we'll make it for you.
I've got to love the film, not the money. Because I know what it's like not to have money - you still survive.
In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.
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