If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.
When you see a finished film, it's very rare that it exceeds your expectations.
I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.
I'm anxious to make another film.
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented directors, and they didn't work. And my next two films were with newcomers, and they worked well. So I've stopped expecting anything from my movies.
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.
And as a filmmaker, I'm trying to unhook myself from this idea that unless you have a brilliant, long, enormously lucrative theatrical run, that your movie somehow failed. And I don't believe that.
A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.