In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.
Usually, family films have characters speaking with each other with much dignity and respect.
In a normal movie, you'd never see one guy talk for an entire page, whether good or bad.
Usually, people think that award movies are hard to break.
I come from Holland, and there's a lot of nudity in film there.
I think there's a side of me that's trying to compete with Lucas and Spielberg - I don't usually admit this publicly - because I tend to think that they only go so far, and their view of the world is rather simplistic. What I want to do is take whatever cinema is considered normal or successful at a particular time and play around with it - to use it as a way of luring audiences in.
I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.
Why is a movie starring women considered a gimmick and a movie starring men is just a normal movie?
