I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.
The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.
I think it would be frustrating having to do things you wouldn't want to do, having to make movies you didn't like.
I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'
That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.
The reason I don't make more movies is because it's really hard to find ideas that I go, 'Yeah, I could spend two years of my life doing this.' Mostly what I do is say no to movies because I go, 'Maybe I would see that, but I don't think I could spend two years on it. I'd go nuts.'
I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
Why haven't I made more movies? Nobody asked me.