Have the Internet and the proliferation of inexpensive digital cameras leveled the playing field for independent filmmakers?
LK: The good news, of course, is that there’s a tsunami of low and no-budget films. For the first time, the art of film has become democratized. You don’t have to be rich to make a movie. When cars came out first, you had to be rich to own an automobile, but then a Jew-hating, Nazi, Henry Ford, made it possible for everyone to own a car. When I made my first synchronized sound movie, “Battle of Love’s Return,” in 1970, it cost $8,000, which in today’s dollars would be, what? $22 billion? It would be very expensive to make a feature-length film on 35mm. “Poultrygeist” was $400,000, which is a drop in the bucket, but it’s still a load of money. Now, everyone is making movies for nothing. You can make a film with a high-definition camera for nothing. There’s tsunami of those films, and some of them will be brilliant. Many of those movies will be great and very successful, and hopefully, those will destroy Time-Warner and Fox and General Electric – the unfair cartel – and liberate the publ
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