Steven Spielberg to direct indie films
Director Steven Spielberg told Variety that he would like to begin making lower-budget films at DreamWorks, after it was acquired by Paramount.
“I would love to go off and make a picture like Capote or George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck,” Spielberg said.
The infamous director also revealed he was originally planning on directing Memoirs of a Geisha, but because he wanted to make it a low-budget — about $10 million — art-house film, no one was willing to join him.
In all honesty, I think that the indie film industry is much better off without the likes of Spielberg, who seems to have more fun when he’s got a lot of money to play with. Although with only $10 million, maybe he would have ended that disastrous movie A.I. about 45 minutes earlier, which might’ve made it a little less … crappy.
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I also heard that for Memoirs of a Geisha he wanted to film it in Japanese only, with English subtitles, for a more authentic movie. Apparently it would have saved them a lot of money, too.