You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As a filmmaker, you aspire to want to make movies that can hopefully stand the test of time, but you never know when that will happen or if that will happen.
And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.
A lot of people in the film industry are fatalists who think a worthwhile film will always achieve its destiny, and the films that aren't worthwhile won't. It's all sort of pre-determined, etc. And I don't think that's true at all.
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.
If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.
Good filmmakers make bad films; it happens.
When you make a film, it's a bet. You don't know how the film is going to be, anyway.
I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.
I think making a film that you think is good and you believe in is going to be difficult forever.