Good Point

On indy movie making. Hat tip, Naveen.

“The real problem with the indie business isn’t quality, but discipline. We have a generation of filmmakers who feel entitled to make personal films… and a generation of executives who’ve been willing to essentially use specialty films as a loss-leader to launch their division or win awards. If people in the indie world want to start making money again, they have to start treating their investment like a truly precious natural resource, not like Monopoly money. Discipline is not antithetical to art.”

And by the way, he means financial discipline, not artistic discipline.

August adds: "I wouldn’t make another indie the way I did The Nines. I’d figure out how I was going to make money before figuring out how to get money."