Oliver Stone talks about his methods of filmmaking.
I'm steeped up to my head in post production so when reading this article I was really interested in a section under the Iraq war were he basically sums up why we made our film Brooklyn Unemployed. (nothing to do with the war) It represents a part of our social class that we don't like to think about because its depressing, but there are great stories to be told in this slice of societal pie.
He says;
"In America, that's why more and more subject matter is completely remote from reality, because we can't deal with reality. Reality is too tough. Many people have said this, I'm not the first, but how many films have you seen about unemployed people? Not that people want to be depressed, but maybe we could find a way to show pictures about people who are actually in our economy, blue collar or white collar, and they're working, and we'd like to see their struggles, but in a way that's entertaining and that lifts us and that makes us see something that we don't normally see in the daily newspaper that grinds us down."
Check out the full article here
http://www.indiewire.com/article/the-10-best-things-oliver-stone-said-at-his-karlovy-vary-international-film-festival
