We had 12 films coming out of South Africa last year, whereas a few years ago we made one or two a year. |
When you buy a ticket and when you buy a genuine DVD, you are an investor in South African film as your money is going back to people who invest in local films. |
When you don't have Tom Cruise, you need some help. |
When you make a little film without stars and not in English, you [just] hope you get into international festivals, so we didn't know if we'd get accepted in competition in Edinburgh or Toronto. Each [one seemed to bring] attention to the film to audiences around the world. We [originally] just wanted it to play in London, New York and Los Angeles like most small films do. |
Without what you did, we would not have been able to make this film together as South Africans in a free country. |
You don't want to make a big deal out of it because it sounds indulgent. But the fact of the matter is that, for all South African filmmakers, because we don't make a lot of films, you feel an unrealistic pressure that your film has to say so much and has to be about everything in South Africa. |