Any filmmaker who has translated some personal vision into a film that actually gets shot and distributed is wildly successful. Congratulations! Anything after that is gravy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.
When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.
Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.
As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.
It's a new business for me to be a filmmaker.
My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
Filmmaking is a real craft.
And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.
Every filmmaker's just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.