The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
Its not really about the movie business, it's about staying in the picture.
Movies are the shadiest business in the world.
With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.
The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
Movies are an expensive business.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
If you're a film studio, you're making a movie for a foreign market. You're pursuing ideas that travel well. It changes the movies we see and how movies are made.
The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.
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