There are a lot of factors that are tough to predict here - just as every film is unpredictable from start to finish - - you just are never totally sure what you'll come up with - I think you just set things up the best you can and work for a good product and vision. Vision...I think that's something that is key to a project, and what plagues most hollywood projects - - once you get a mass amount of money in on something, you then get a mass amount of people, or more than just a few, who think they can and try to push the project this way and that. This is more supposition than known fact, but I would guess this is often what makes a project falter...that and of course the fact that anyhting produced with a target audience as broad and diverse as the U.S. moviegoing audience is incredibly hard to make and keep solid.
Another thing is if you've got someone who's used to making indie stuff for maybe, max 2mil a film, then they are used to dealing with the limited resources and restrictions that go along with that - often less choices lead to more creative and ultimately more artistic and interesting pieces. When you've suddenly got 10's of millions to mess with and all the options in the world, it is easy to go overboard and out the window goes your originally solid message, your vision, your throughline that is so important in film... So perhaps it takes a whole different animal at the hollywood level to really maintain the right kinds of control/delegate things well. Perhaps if we gave Spielberg 1mil to make a little movie he would make a piece of junk - who knows? These are only my sort of philosophical thoughts on things since I'm not yet a professional and my insight is limited by my experience and age :lol:
-Aaron
