Certainly, this process is not the way of the future in the United States. It's already been changing over the past seven years. The doors keep opening a little wider for the independents as the years go by. But then, of course, I have and can get money from European sources. Still you do need at least six or seven million dollars to make a film, and it's really a lot of hard work to get that kind of money.
Nobody has the recipe for how to finance and make a film.
It's luck the first time around and always lots and lots of painstaking effort afterwards. I was very lucky with Touch. Because MGM made so much money on Leaving Las Vegas, they thought they might catch lightning again with that film. Unfortunately, a delightful and thoughtful comedy love story like Touch gets lost amid all the high budget, high tech action movies, which get most of the attention and box office receipts. A lot of movies that are gems get lost and overlooked because they don't boast big stars and bigger budgets.