You have to protect the creative process from the business side. When you have a lot of people being collaborative, it gets very confusing. To make a movie on that level is actually kind of interesting when you re there on the set. The harder part is when you re sitting in a room trying to decide what it will be, and everyone has a different agenda. Ideally, you want one voice, one leader.
People have a tremendous amount of respon sibility.
There s a lot of money involved, and then fear happens. And fear is a pretty scary place to work from. A movie s success is measured by its economics rather than how it makes people feel. That s a hard pill to swallow that there are people in rooms touting how great a movie is just because it made money. There s that saying, If you build it, they will come.