How do the directors differ from a high-budget studio flick to low-budget independent films like Lovely & Amazing?
DM: That’s the one thing you can’t really say differs between big and small films because a great director is a great director. They don’t need hundreds of million of dollars to prove that. The economics of the industry might think there’s something different, but to me, you either know what you’re doing or you don’t. A lot of studio directors don’t, and a lot of independent film directors don’t. Actors like myself always look for those directors who do know what they’re doing. You play a big movie star in this film. How was it playing something so close to home? DM: It’s a typical part. In recent years, there have been a lot of movies where a real movie star plays a movie star in a movie, like America’s Sweethearts and In & Out. I can think of any number of films that have that part. I wasn’t drawn to the part because I got to play a movie star. In fact, that may have been a deficit in my original thinking just because it’s viewed as a typical part. But, you look at the whole of the s
