The movies I usually do are maybe three or four weeks because they don't have a lot of money.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm lucky if I find one movie a year that's worth doing, and when I do find one, it usually only takes 20-30 days to shoot.
If you really spend time with movies, it's three years of your life from beginning to end. I started out planting the seed with 'Monster's Ball' about independent cinema and raising money and that whole thing as a producer, and then it becomes easier for me.
Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free.
I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.
If you go to a bad movie, it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie, it's two years.
Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.
I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary.
When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
Usually, you can shoot a movie in 10 or 12 weeks.
On a television show, you basically make a movie a week. Movies take three months - it's crazy. They're so slow, it's like vacation to me.