There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.
No one can guarantee success of a film.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.
There's a strange sense of accomplishment in making an independent film. Everything's against you; there's no time, and even less money - you bring a bottle of glue, chip in twenty bucks, and hope you all make it through the day. If you manage to finish it and it actually turns out to be pretty good, it's thrilling.
When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.
Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.