I think the situation in Toronto is such that there are funding organizations which make it easy for a film to raise more money than it needs and very often that works against a film.
There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.
The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film writing, is a talent - you can't just do it like that.
I never would have guessed I would be making science fiction and horror films.
The effort always remains that my new film outdoes my last in terms of performance and gets better box office success. Box office is the sole reason why I do films.
A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that really grabbed me were Costa-Gavras's films like 'Z' and 'State of Siege.'
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.
I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.
If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.
In business you need two Jews for one Greek, two Greeks for one Syrian and two Syrians for one Armenian.
Nick pulled a business card out of a pocket and handed it to Elphaba. It read , next to a moving image of Nick, mugging for the camera. “I finally get to use my Harry Potter business cards!
There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.
Are you guys busy?" Juniper asked. "Well," I said, "we're in the middle of this game against a bunch of monsters and we're trying not to die." "We're not busy," Annabeth said.
We love and reason because God Loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.
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