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Hollywood Films Have Become A Cesspool Of Formula And It's Up To Us To Try To Change It... I Feel Like A Preacher! But It's Really True. I Feel Personally Responsible For The Future Of American Cinema. Me Personally.

Cinema Really Lends Itself Well To Big, Archetypal Stories, You Know, Classic Old Stories And You Need Kind Of A Weird, Big Terrain Like The Japanese Plains For Samurai Movies Or The West. You Need That For These Giants To Walk Around.

I Mean, Look, I Love Movies, Not Just The Ones I Make... In Fact, I Don't Like The Movies I Make Very Much.

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.

Marketing Has Supplanted Story As The Primary Force Behind The Worthiness Of Making A Film, And That's A Very Sad Thing. It's Film Only As A Function Of Consumerism Rather Than As An Important Component Of Our Culture, And That's Everywhere Around The World.