What happens to the Allison Anderses, [the independent filmmakers], of the world?
… For independent directors, who have been pushed out of the picture, I guess there’s cable. Allison Anders made a movie, “Things Behind the Sun,” that caused some stir at Sundance [this year]. It was a very personal picture she had been trying to get made for a long time, and eventually it was going to run on Showtime, and she said that she’s thinking, well, maybe Showtime’s a place for it to go now. Because, in the end, you make a movie, and even if you’re an art-house director, if you’re an indie director, you still want people to see it. I mean, you want a smarter audience who can understand what it is you’re trying to do. And now cable has become the kind of narrow-casting that we are told art-house theaters used to be. … But if you don’t want to do that, if you’re Jim Jarmusch, you just make your movies, you find your money, then you hope that somehow, somebody’s going to want to pick it up and exhibit it. And that’s the question. Do you want to be Jim Jarmusch? Or do you wan
