FORGE: A Feature Film by 500 Cuts

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I watched The Wrestler today for the first time.  It’s bare-bones, character-driven storytelling.  Good stuff.  But more importantly, I watched the making-of in which director Darren Aronofsky lays down some words of advice to filmmakers.

He said to make the films you want to make.  If you worry about what the audience thinks all the time, you’ll never finish anything and you’ll never be happy with the things you do finish.

Why did this strike a chord with me?  For the past few weeks I’ve been lamenting the fact that I may be the only person who likes or even understands the movie we’re making.  It has a slower pace, lots of scientific jargon, and only a couple locations.  Not really a recipe to get people on the edges of their seats.  While none of those qualities of the film have changed, I feel a lot better about making a movie of which I may be the only fan.