When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.
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You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
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.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
I found filmmaking to be a very practical art form. It's about figuring out how to create within the very practical limitations/constraints of time, money, and large groups of collaborators.
You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.