How many years and how many pictures does it take to win the confidence of Paramount? How many years before my fellow workers say, 'I know he is doing his best?'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.
I don't know how to measure success. I have been fortunate that I got exciting films to do and work with talented directors who brought out the best in me.
But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.
When you shoot a film, it takes six months, and it's very important keep the morale of the crew up top, all the time, and keep them on their toes, and keep them enthusiastic.
We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.
I've been a documentary photographer for much longer than I have been a filmmaker.
I make an attempt to do different kinds of films. There's no such formula for guaranteed success.
So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.
I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.
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