Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.
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Making movies is both entirely ludicrous and incredibly hard. It's a preposterous way to spend your time. You give up a lot for the privilege of doing it, and one of the things you get are relationships of immense trust that you see forged in situations of immense stress.
There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.
If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.
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.
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.
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.
If you stay true to your ideas, film-making becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process.
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.
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