If it feels to have this set of performers even if they won't bring in money, let's do that. It's my first film. Later on I can fall apart at the seams and start kissing butt in Hollywood. There's not a lot to remind people of the suburbs in 1999 or 2000. Every screenplay dictates an entire agenda of problems that need dealing with and black and white was a solution, not one that's allowed by people who are making films in the rest of the world.
Independent films tend to be marketed based on their outsiderness.
I think that the part of it that has risen into the mainstream view is pretty much mainstream material or material that, as a break from Hollywood films, is an odd piece of diet for the day. I don't know if we're different or the same as that. Now I don't even know how much people realize that they're being force fed pap. I'm not saying that my film is an antidote to that, but we no longer require it of film as a medium. But nobody has trouble accepting that filmmakers can't use the colors or subject matters they want to use.