Seduced and Abandoned

722 00:35:43,183 --> 00:35:45,560 Most of the movie in the festival are movie that 723 00:35:46,603 --> 00:35:48,355 if the only person will go is 724 00:35:48,396 --> 00:35:51,233 their mothers and cousins, that's all. 725 00:35:51,274 --> 00:35:53,318 - What is fantastic about Cannes is that 726 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,238 a Romanian film, or a Belgian film, 727 00:35:56,279 --> 00:35:59,533 or a Danish film, or a Uruguayan film is shown 728 00:35:59,574 --> 00:36:02,369 at the same time with the same number of journalists. 729 00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:03,870 - Therefore, it has a chance. 730 00:36:03,912 --> 00:36:07,249 - Exactly, as a big American production with big stars. 731 00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:11,127 - The big films protect the small films. 732 00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:14,381 The stars protect the unknown actors. 733 00:36:14,422 --> 00:36:16,007 - When I make a movie, 734 00:36:16,049 --> 00:36:18,593 all I think is what's the profit. 735 00:36:18,635 --> 00:36:19,886 Before I make a movie, 736 00:36:19,928 --> 00:36:21,638 I know how much I'm going to sell it. 737 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:26,101 So it's got nothing to do with the creative part of it. 738 00:36:26,143 --> 00:36:28,979 I look at it as purely business. 739 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:31,398 - Cinema is not poetry, it's not painting. 740 00:36:31,439 --> 00:36:32,899 You need money. 741 00:36:32,941 --> 00:36:36,653 And we had sometime people saying, well, 742 00:36:36,695 --> 00:36:40,115 it's a big commercial Barnum Circus here, 743 00:36:40,157 --> 00:36:42,951 say, but please, it's very important. 744 00:36:42,993 --> 00:36:46,830 The day we won't have anymore advertising everywhere 745 00:36:46,872 --> 00:36:48,874 will mean that there is no money anymore. 746 00:36:48,915 --> 00:36:50,542 No money, no films. 747 00:36:50,584 --> 00:36:53,044 So we don't have to be naive with that. 748 00:36:53,086 --> 00:36:55,672 - But I think this is what is great about Cannes, 749 00:36:55,714 --> 00:36:58,967 it's an hybrid. I mean, Melhor wrote an essay on cinema 750 00:36:59,009 --> 00:37:01,845 and the famous last sentence of the essay, 751 00:37:01,887 --> 00:37:04,514 besides cinema is an industry. 752 00:37:04,556 --> 00:37:07,184 And I think the fact that Cannes has always remembered 753 00:37:07,225 --> 00:37:10,562 that line, it was also an industry, to combine the two 754 00:37:10,604 --> 00:37:13,899 because this is the nature of cinema, it's imperfect. 755 00:37:13,940 --> 00:37:17,569 - We wanna make a movie, which is set in Iraq. 756 00:37:17,611 --> 00:37:19,571 It is something very polarizing. 757 00:37:19,613 --> 00:37:21,072 We come together and we have 758 00:37:21,114 --> 00:37:23,867 these bizarre sexual encounters. 759 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:26,703 - Do you want me to send you a movie that we've done? 760 00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:28,055 - Oh, you already made this movie, okay. 761 00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:30,165 That's a wrap, let's go. 762 00:37:30,207 --> 00:37:33,835 And now I am coming off the TV show, six years, 763 00:37:33,877 --> 00:37:35,212 next year I have a half season, 764 00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:37,005 seven years, then we're done. 765 00:37:37,047 --> 00:37:39,591 And I'm going to, I don't like to say this 766 00:37:39,633 --> 00:37:41,760 in some lofty way, but I'm going to 767 00:37:41,802 --> 00:37:44,429 reenter filmmaking as a career. 768 00:37:44,471 --> 00:37:45,948 Do you think you could be in the movie business 769 00:37:45,972 --> 00:37:46,972 with me again? 770 00:37:47,974 --> 00:37:49,643 - Definitely, but not by yourself. 771 00:37:49,684 --> 00:37:50,936 I will have to support you. 772 00:37:50,977 --> 00:37:52,288 - You lay out all the cards, exactly. 773 00:37:52,312 --> 00:37:53,563 - Listen. 774 00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:54,731 - There's gotta be a woman. 775 00:37:54,773 --> 00:37:55,792 - That's what they know me about. 776 00:37:55,816 --> 00:37:57,567 I tell people what I, 777 00:37:57,609 --> 00:38:01,071 you need to get support with other 778 00:38:01,112 --> 00:38:02,948 movie style people around you. 779 00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:06,201 Like Gerard Butler supported with another four 780 00:38:07,369 --> 00:38:08,453 and what's his name. 781 00:38:08,495 --> 00:38:09,722 - So you want my character to go to Iraq, 782 00:38:09,746 --> 00:38:11,498 you want me to fuck four women in a hotel. 783 00:38:11,540 --> 00:38:12,666 - Five, if possible. 784 00:38:12,707 --> 00:38:14,668 - Five. - Make it better. 785 00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:19,005 That in today world, very difficult or nearly impossible, 786 00:38:19,047 --> 00:38:22,676 one man to make the movie on his own name. 787 00:38:22,717 --> 00:38:24,052 - You know, years ago, 788 00:38:26,179 --> 00:38:28,390 pe