No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.
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A lot of films come out before they're finished.
Back home, we watch a lot of movies, and that was never available to us. When I came to America, I was like, 'No, it's really coming out this Friday? Not three months from now?'
It's becoming increasingly harder and harder; there's no such thing as independent film anymore. There aren't any, they don't exist. In the old days you could go and get a certain amount of the budget with foreign sales, now everybody wants a marketable angle.
I'm of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
The movies have a way of seeping out there over time. We don't put them in 2,000 theaters. It wouldn't work that way.
The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.
When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
When a movie is about to come out on its initial debut, there are a lot of people involved - the financiers, the studio and the producers and also, many times, the foreign distributors. So it is a time of tremendous pressure and uncertainty.
Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie.
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