If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think you have a responsibility to the people you're making movies with, and I take that very seriously. I don't want to let up and I don't want to let down.
I feel like there's such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.
It's my responsibility to make the movie work with the schedule and money we have. It's my job to get the best movie we can do in the time we have.
I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time, you have a responsibility to make a movie that entertains and can get an audience.
My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.
One person doesn't have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn't do well.