Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with. I never felt that. If I took the assignment, I'd give it my best shot.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The writer in movies is about as low as you can get and you really are a hired hand. You are paid a lot of money to be treated like dirt.
To me, it doesn't make any sense to pick your work based on the size of the budget of the movie.
That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'
We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.
When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.
You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
The success of the film should depend on its budget.
The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.