John Sayles in the NEW YORK TIMES
by Andre Soares
John Anderson chats with John Sayles in the New York Times:
"Independent cinema is often thought of as a young person’s medium, by reason of low budgets, often naïve subject matter and an ‘alternative’ cachet. But many of the better-known people working in it are no longer kids. They are, however, being forced to remain alternative. Gus van Sant’s new Paranoid Park will be distributed by IFC First Take, through which films are available on pay-per-view cable the same day they are released theatrically. (Most theater owners refuse to show such movies, worried that television will cannibalize ticket sales.) Another indie veteran, David Lynch, is self-distributing, largely through his Web site.
"’The good thing,’ Mr. Sayles said, ‘is it’s a lot easier to make a movie than it is used to be. When we started, there was no high-def video, for instance. We made our movie and nobody had ever heard of that: "You just made a movie? How can anyone just make a movie?" If your film simply had sprocket holes, the four companies that were not studios — there were four at the time — would come and look.’"
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