I'm a big believer in volume. If I made three times as many movies as Stanley Kubrick, that must mean I'm three times as good.
One of the reasons why I think virtual reality, as a narrative format, is never going to go beyond the short-form immersion space is because the bedrock of visual storytelling is the reverse angle. If you can't look into the eyes of the protagonist, you cannot hold people's attention for more than 15 minutes.
Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring.
I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.
Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
