I just hope that my films will survive me.
It's really interesting making films and actually seeing the life that they have in the subsequent years and seeing which ones stand up over time and which ones sort of fade away.
No film survives because of a big name. If a film has to survive generations, it will survive on its content and craft.
There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.
"I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."
For British cinema to survive, you really need a British film culture, and it's got to start down there, with young kids watching films in the cinema - so they can be transported to a different world.
In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.
I've had a lot of movies that didn't get great numbers on test screening, but a lot of times the film was able to survive, or the studio still stayed and supported it.
