You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.
“You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.”
The World Motivation
You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.
“You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.”
You can't compromise to keep the film in budget.
I'm a huge film buff. If it wasn't for Martin Scorcese, Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, I wouldn't be here.
As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.
I come from theatre and I like the audition process.
You can't think of a franchise from day one. It starts with the audience accepting the idea.
The way we always want to compromise between everything, I think that's really Belgian. I think I'm really Belgian for that, because I never make choices. That's my problem, actually.
I don't think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there's a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.
When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province.
Mentors of mine were under a big pressure to minimize their femininity to make it. I'm not going to do that. That takes away my power. I'm not going to compromise who I am.