[LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The movie business is] out of whack, ... The studio model has to be rethought. |
A cycle of Americana from an oblique angle. |
At the most basic level, it's a lot of free publicity. |
I approached them because I?d read that they?d bought the Landmark Theatre chain. They control all the forms of distribution for their own product - now?s the time to try this idea of simultaneous release. You really need someone who?s into each of those pies to pull it off. And so I called Todd and said, ?Let?s hook up and have lunch and talk about this. Don?t you feel - don?t we all feel - like this is where it?s going? |
I don't think we should be trying to control how people experience art. They can see it on a screen or on a T-shirt. If you've got something that's interesting, it just really doesn't matter how they're seeing it. |
I just wanted to make a movie about love and jealousy, ... but in an environment that you don't often get to see in movies. The whole appeal was the simplicity of it. The idea was just to not tart it up. These cameras make it easy to go in without any lights, on all real locations. |
I know you are here to kill me. Shoot coward. You are only going to kill a man. |
I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. |
I liked that he was prolific. I liked the subject matter. I envied his ability to really be a part of the worlds that he portrayed. He was in it in a way that I could never be. And, I don't know, just the bluntness of his movies or most of them, I really like. I was watching a lot of them and had some of them with me when I was in Ohio, not to ape anything in specific, just for the feeling. |
I tried very hard not to disturb the cast. We designed the story to fit the town, ... incorporate much of their own lives into the story. |
I want them to sell 'Bubble' DVDs in the theater lobby, |
I want them to sell 'Bubble' DVDs in the theater lobby. |
I wanted to be as site-specific as possible. I said to each actor, 'I want you to talk about things you know about.' There's a screenplay but the goal was to incorporate as much of them into the characters as possible. |
I was at the Laundromat every Sunday, the one over across the (Belpre) bridge. I'd go to the Laundromat and then I'd have the chicken club at Wendy's. |
I'm just like Fassbinder, ... but without the drugs and the whores. |