There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of … - John Sayles

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John Sayles

There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.

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I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

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We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe. ' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.

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As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.

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To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good. '

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