People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the week. Nothing to it. What's difficult is to combine a commercial film with art.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
You have to have a certain amount of limitations, I think, to make art and to make something that can be alive on film. Money can get in the way of that.
Making a film, every film, is a big gamble, large or small. The more that you do it, the more you're aware of that.
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
I love making films more than anything, but it's tough.
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.
When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.
In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.