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There Are Many Stories Of People Didn't Set Out To Make A Film That Became A Classic - The Whole Process Was A Disaster, Everybody Hated Each Other, The Movie Itself Was A Disaster, Everybody Thought The Movie And The Script Was Going To Be A Piece Of Crap. Look At Alfred Hitchcock And Psycho. Nobody Wanted To Make Psycho; It Was Crap To Them. The Only Person That Wanted To Make Psycho Was Hitchcock. Now, It's Considered A Classic And A Work Of Art.

It's Not Worth It, It's Not About Money, Especially When You're Dealing With A Culture. It Should Be About Elevating The Idea Of What We Are And Who We Are As People In The Cinema, And That Kind Of Stuff Keeps Dragging Us Back Down.

So It's Hard To Be An Artist And Be True To The Reality Of The World You Want To Create And Also Make It Entertaining And Successful Financially.

Tupac Shakur Is Something That, Of Course I Want To Make The Tupac Movie, I Love Tupac, But When That Movie Was Announced, We Didn't Even Have A Script Yet. It Was Just Being Written. People Announce Things Too Soon. If You Go To Any Filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - You Go In Their Offices And There Are Scripts Everywhere And There's About Four Or Five Of Them You Really Want To Make.

The Outsider Hero Is Hero Riding Into Town, He's The Gunslinger, Shame - The Same Thing, He Didn't Want To Do It Anymore, He Wanted To Live A Different Life But Part Of Who You Are Sort Of Haunts You And You Can't Run Away From Evil And If You Have Special Skills, And Most People Are Mistreated, Which Is Unfortunately In Our World, We Always Need An Equalizer, That Type Of Character To Come To Our Rescue.