There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
On a big film, there's almost no way you can meet everyone. On an indie, there are 30 people and no trailers to duck into.
There's a real cowardice in the movie business. If you don't meet the right crazy people, you can't do it.
More and more movies have been pressured to allow reporters and TV cameras to come onto the set while you're working, and I find that a real violation.
Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.
You were there all day long, 12 hours a day. So there was none of this, 'I'm going back to my trailer, my trailer's bigger than your trailer,' that kind of Hollywood nonsense.
Any time you make a movie where you're living in a certain head space for an extended period of time, it's tough not to take a little piece home with you.
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful.
Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird!
When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.