Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.
You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've conditioned myself to go into small independent films with the expectation that they will not, and there...
The Australian film industry is a small industry, so you have to really be flexible within working in different mediums. A lot of actors work in theater, film, and television, because there's not much opportunity in terms of employment there. So you ...
Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.
'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.
When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.
Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down' and 'The Island', and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then...
I've been blessed with enough wealth that I can make a film myself up to a certain budget. So one way I thought I would reinvent myself was just to make these very small, personal films that I've financed myself.
I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
I think the perspective that small-town directors bring to films is very different.
I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.
'The Jungle Book.' It's one of the best animated films ever. I saw it when I was small at a cinema in Tehran.
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.
The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.
I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.
When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.
Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
