I Think You Get In

As We Know From Our Government, The More Power You Have, The More Of A Bureaucrat You Are, And The More Ego You Have Invested In Being Right, The Greater The Odds Are That You Will Never Change Your Opinion.

My Sisters Would Swear That I Was The Spoiled Kid Who Got Everything He Wanted, And I Would Go "no Way! I Worked My Ass Off And You Guys Got Everything." We're All Kind Of In Our Own Narratives.

I'm So Happy And Relieved For The Indie Spirited Film World Because ... I Don't Even Know If It's Indie, It's Just Alternative Cinema That's Just Different Than What The Studios Are Doing And It's A Big Variety In That Category. Everyone Always Is Complaining About The Film Industry But I Think It's Important To Acknowledge When It's Actually A Pretty Good Time When That Comes Back Around. I'd Be Remiss Not To Say, "hey, It's A Pretty Good Era Right Now For These Reasons," And Maybe That Doesn't Last Or Maybe It Does, But I Will Acknowledge It.

That's The History Of Art - You Have To Consider Yourself Fortunate If You Ever Get Acknowledged. If You Have A Critical Success That's Also A Financial Success And That You Feel Good About... If Things Line Up, That's Pretty Rare.

All I've Learned Is That You Need The Studio System Sometimes, If Your Budget Is A Certain Size, And Other Films You Can Do Independently. When I Think Of A Studio, I Generally Think Of Distribution. Since I'm A Director, I Have A Similar Creative Experience On Every Film I Do, Because I Can Control That. But Then It's A Different Film, I Think, As It Reaches The Public, Depending On The Way It's Marketed. I Don't Know. I Haven't Learned Much Of Anything. Sometimes You Need Them, Sometimes You Don't. Sometimes They Want You, Most Of The Time They Don't.