I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I would love to do anything from a really gritty, interesting, indie type film, to that commercial, bigger stuff.
If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right.
I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.
There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.
Well, I was getting a lot of money then, and I wasn't getting any Hollywood films, so I just did those. I'd always do a play in between. Whenever I ran low on funds, I'd always rush off to do a movie somewhere.
If the money's right, I'll do a film.
I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.
I never did films for the money or because I needed to buy a house or car. I do it because I love my job.
God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too.