I think not many young people are willing to pay the price of telling their own story.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.

When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.

I'm organizing documentary films, and whenever scriptwriting gets too tedious I go to my editing room and start to edit the documentary, even if I don't have the full funding yet. So you have to keep yourself busy, you have to like the subject matter.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.