Anybody who understands how a movie gets made understands that a deep-pockets player is not going to make a movie that has anything defamatory in it without protections.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
I don't believe making a movie accessible means you have to dumb them down.
As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.
There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another.
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
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.