I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself. ↗
The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them. ↗
Independent film is almost nonexistent right now, because all the distributers that used to love to put out these little art films are all out of business right now, because it costs so much to open a movie. ↗
In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. ↗
From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time. ↗