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The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

I've directed independent film.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

I grew up on films.

But, I love making independent films. I love it! You create a family, and you sweat, you bleed, you cry, you shout, you laugh and you hug. It's such an extraordinary experience, making independent films.

Honestly, I guess if you looked at my CV, I've been doing independent movies since I started. I think that I kind of took a few steps back from Hollywood as soon as it all started to come my way because I wasn't quite ready for the attention.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.