Try To Produce Your Own Films, Avoid

As A Producer, I Think One Of The Most Important Decisions You Make Is Not Necessarily The Material You Are Working On But The Production Apparatus That You Choose To Develop The Project With, And That Determines What Funding You Go To, It Determines Many Factors.

We're Still Staring At Tv Screens, Right? They're Still Monitors. But The Way Information Is Delivered Is Different. So It Creates An Interesting Way Of Looking Back At Early Films, Because They're Actually Relevant In Terms Of The Devices People Are Using. But The Consideration, The Debate, Around Those Technologies Was Very Different From What's Being Presented Now.

I Think The Situation In Toronto Is Such That There Are Funding Organizations Which Make It Easy For A Film To Raise More Money Than It Needs And Very Often That Works Against A Film.

Though I Am Still Very Vulnerable To Audiences—and It Happens All The Time - Where For Some Reason The Energy Doesn’t Connect And, Since The Film Is Very Personal, Obviously I Am Made To Feel Very Vulnerable By That.

That's A Very Odd Notion Because It Involves Seeing Money Up There On The Screen - If Something Cost $5 Million To Make, They Want To See That $5 Million Up There.