Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.