The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.
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I think the success of any movie is dependent upon it being a singular vision.
There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Movies will end up being this esoteric art form, where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.
If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.
We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.
We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
I'm interested in making films that make people think.
Obviously, I try to make the films work for an audience. That's the main point of making a film, and in retrospect, one can see that certain films, let's say Leaving Las Vegas, demonstrated its own success.
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
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