Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.
I don't really watch many heist movies. Actually, I have quite eclectic tastes, but I tend to watch just foreign films. I don't know why that is. I'm not particularly deep or anything, I just like foreign movies.
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.
Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.
In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.
With independent films, you again get to work with new directors and experiment too.
But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
I rarely see one of the 'summer blockbuster' movies. I'd like to see a stronger focus on smaller, smarter movies.
I watch mostly independent films.
I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.
I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.
I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.
I love independent film so much, and that's kind of where I made my mark.
Short films are good, especially since independent films are making waves now, more than before.
I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
I crave working on those small independent movies because I love going to see those myself.
