I've Always Liked The Minds Of Criminals,

You Make A Film And You Can't Really Pick The Way It's Put To The Public. You Control The Content, But The Way It's Marketed, Or The Poster, Or What They're Telling The Public About The Film, It's Beyond You. Some People Don't Even See Them, Because They Think They Already Know It. That Can Be Frustrating, When Something You've Done Is Marketed In A Way You Think Is Antithetical To What It Is.

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.

Normally My Process Is To Sit In A Room And Read A Script And Talk About It And Ask Questions And Just Create A Dialogue. That Goes All The Way Through Shooting. All Kinds Of Thoughts And Ideas Can Find Their Way In There. As Long As You're All On - We're Just All Trying To Tell The Story So My Job As A Director Is Just To Find Out What This Film Wants To Be Based On, It's Just Words On A Page At Some Point But Then It Just Needs To Go To Some Level Of Believable Storytelling. I'm Discovering The Film As I Make It, To Some Degree.

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.

I Have A Lot Of Films That I Haven't Gotten Made, And That Continues To Trouble Me. But Someday, Some Way Or Another, I Think I Will. It's All About Timing. There's A Moment When You're Hot And Studios Will Make Your Next Film, And Then There's A Moment When You're Really Cold, And They Couldn't Care Less What You Want To Do Next. That's When You Have To Recede And Make Lower-budgeted Films.