If you don't take it personally, the partnership between producers and directors is very intimate.
Survival often feels like an indignity.
I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit
People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.
Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.