For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.
Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.
I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
My mother was a barmaid and I was raised in a trailer park. I'm used to that language. I put it on the screen so that people could interpret it as they wish.
It used to be that people would try to achieve financial success with their art, to make themselves comfortable, accumulate possessions.