You know, it was a small, independent movie and with Paramount becoming involved, it was obviously a good thing, but you can't put a round peg in a square hole.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.
I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.
I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens.
The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.
I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.
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