Paul Schrader: “Before, you were always dealing with people who came up through the movies and who loved the movies,but in the last 10 or 15 years, the people who finance movies don’t particularly like movies. They have a financial model. And if you don’t adhere you get replaced."

“Before, you were always dealing with people who came up through the movies and who loved the movies,” sighs Schrader. “So you could always sit down together and find a resolution to any disagreement. But in the last 10 or 15 years, the people who finance movies don’t particularly like movies or particularly watch movies. They have a financial model. And if you adhere to the model, you can work. And if you don’t, you get replaced. And that’s what I fell into with Dying of the Light. I had written the script and they hired me as director and I assumed they had hired me because they had some respect for me.”

[The Irish Times]