People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The problem with movies is you are over-rewarded for the work you do. It's hard to give up, and I got used to a certain lifestyle.
When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
Usually when you watch a film, you're just sort of biting your nails about things you could have done differently.
I think sometimes when you're working consistently in film, and maybe this is just me, but you do feel quite dislocated from your audience.
Some films change your life a little.
Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.
Sometimes films might not work, but you as an actor should keep working. Because no matter how much you panic about how your film didn't work, eventually, when you step out in the real world, there are people who value you as an artist.
Making movies has become such a golden ring, and it's all such a big business, that the rewards system has gotten totally out of whack. Suddenly, you're treated in a manner befitting someone who is actually an important person.
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.