Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never made a film which fully satisfied me.
While I was a voracious movie-goer as a boy, I never put writing and films together in my mind.
No two directors make the same film the same way.
I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.
I started to make my own films, however small and however independent they were, from the beginning. And so, even though I was nobody, I was always the master of my own work.
I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.
I've made some movies that I really loved that nobody saw.
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll.