Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve emptiness as much as possible - the Zen thing - to let the deal come out of that nothing.
Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.
I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
That movie, 'Airplane!,' what a landmark film it was. It's a great, great movie.
I think it would really be more like 10 films before I locked in and said, "Yeah, I'm really gonna do this thing."
Seeing David Mackenzie's work in "Starred Up," I thought that was a wonderful film.
