We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.
My films are very rooted in specific people's point of view. Some film-makers give a more global point of view, like God looking down at the characters.
One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what my feeling or opinion might be about a given film, once you give it to the audience, they own it.
Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
I think the audience know which films are aimed at their pocket, and which films are aimed at their soul. There are a lot of films out there made by people who are genuinely trying to make a change.
It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.
As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.
People say they make movies to show what 'really happens.' But they only show what they choose to show.
The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day.
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.