But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.
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I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.
It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don't really cost as much to make.
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, because films wouldn't have the pressure they have if the word wasn't out about how expensive they were.
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking.
I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
Across the board, Australian films need to have a lot more money spent on selling them.
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