To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.
Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.
The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.
Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.
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.
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.
Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.