If you live below your means, you can turn down stuff all the time.
I always wanted to do something that revolves around the darker side of sex, the pressure of it.
No matter what, I will always choose practical FX over digital ones. Blood spray pumps and squibs go a long way in convincing the audience that the carnage on screen happens right there, in a manner that digital have not achieved.
Explore the internet long enough and you'll see completely balls out madness there.
Any filmmaker would want to make something that can still be seen without someone saying, "Ugh that was repulsing, offensive, don't bother visiting it 2nd time. "
Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.
I think what President [Barack] Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the [George W. ] Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.
Usually, in the studio, on this sort of thing. . . you just go out and have a play over it, and see what comes, and its usually - mostly - the first take thats the best one, and you find yourself repeating yourself thereafter.
I started to crouch because that way I could guard the plate better, and I always wanted to hit. 300 in the big leagues.
Does the business have favourable long term prospects?