What Is Filmmaking But Groping In The

Independent Means One Thing To Me: It Means That Regardless Of The Source Of Financing, The Director's Voice Is Extremely Present. It's Such A Pretentious Term, But It's Auteurist Cinema. Director-driven, Personal, Auteurist... Whatever Word You Want. It's Where You Feel The Director, Not A Machine, At Work. It Doesn't Matter Where The Money Comes From. It Matters How Much Freedom The Director Has To Work With His Or Her Team. That's How I Personally Define Independent Movies.

The Actors Are The Greatest Executors Of Tone In A Film. They're The Most Important Cinematic Component.

I'm Considered To Some Degree A Successful Director Working In Hollywood, Making Films My Way But Using Studio Financing. But With Almost Every Single One, I Get Praised Up The Wazoo By People Who Never Would Have Financed The Films. It's: "gee, This Movie Is So New And Different - What Do You Want To Do Next?" "this." "oh, That's Too New And Different."

I Never Wanted Money Worries To Slow Me Down Or Make Me Take A Job I Didn't Want.

It Seems That Our Politicians See The World In Black And White, So Why Not Our Artists? Did Woody Allen's 'manhattan' Have To Be In Black And White? No. But Is It Fantastic That It Was? To See New York Like That? Yes!