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I gladly, I voluntarily gave up the kind of commercial film career I had going as soon as I had enough money to finance my own films.

That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

My choice of films has never been governed by money. That is perhaps why I don't have a very fancy bank account. I'd rather get respect and creative satisfaction through my work than just earn money.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.