There’s nothing sillier than
There’s nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on NYPD Blue, shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would. Andrew Bujalski
Andrew Bujalski
It’s always a struggle
It’s always a struggle with small films to get people in the theater. I think I have a perverse contrarian streak that’s always kind of aspired to make movies that are impossible to market. Andrew Bujalski
There are two aspects
There are two aspects to making movies: One is the feeling of wanting to push myself into stuff that I don’t know how to do. Then there’s the other impulse to try and earn a living. I want to be careful about not confusing those too much – not that those things can’t have a … Read more
I’d love to do
I’d love to do a really cheap action movie. I’d love to do stunts. I mean, not myself. I’d hurt myself, but I’d love to direct others doing stunts. I think that would be a blast. The funny thing is, if I really think through this fantasy, I know that the way I conceive of … Read more
I want the pleasures
I want the pleasures of the real exploitation movie, and exploitation has changed so much in 40 years. Plenty of people grow up with this fantasy of, We’re going to do it like Roger Corman did it, as that sounds so fun. If you make something small, goofy and exploitative, it’s nowhere near the guaranteed … Read more
On one hand, I
On one hand, I kind of feel like I have unlimited options right now, and obviously that’s not technically true, but when you’re at this place where you’re just kind of dreaming up stuff, your imagination is your limit. That’s where I’m at, which is great, but ultimately I think you have to make these … Read more
I guess I’m not
I guess I’m not always looking for the same things in movies that most people are, which I wouldn’t have necessarily even really known if not for spending too much time reading about myself on the Internet. Andrew Bujalski
It just kind of
It just kind of continues to be strange and interesting to me to try to understand what other people are looking for. And this also just comes from getting older. You look at the stuff certainly that’s coming out of Hollywood these days, and you go, Did what came out of Hollywood when I was … Read more
I think a lot
I think a lot of people go into filmmaking thinking, How can I make a career? And so when they make their first film, they make it thinking, Well, this’ll be the one that gets me to the place where I can make the second film the way I want to make it, and that’ll … Read more
I suppose it’s nice
I suppose it’s nice that I’ve made films that some people have heard of and respect. That’s great. And it’s certainly helpful in some regards, but they’re really tough economic prospects. They always have been, and that’s not necessarily getting any better. And not just the films, but it’s also been a rough 10 years … Read more