Movies Are So Hard To Get Made

There Are Many Stories Of People Didn't Set Out To Make A Film That Became A Classic - The Whole Process Was A Disaster, Everybody Hated Each Other, The Movie Itself Was A Disaster, Everybody Thought The Movie And The Script Was Going To Be A Piece Of Crap. Look At Alfred Hitchcock And Psycho. Nobody Wanted To Make Psycho; It Was Crap To Them. The Only Person That Wanted To Make Psycho Was Hitchcock. Now, It's Considered A Classic And A Work Of Art.

Tupac Shakur Is Something That, Of Course I Want To Make The Tupac Movie, I Love Tupac, But When That Movie Was Announced, We Didn't Even Have A Script Yet. It Was Just Being Written. People Announce Things Too Soon. If You Go To Any Filmmaker - Clint Eastwood, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Michael Mann - You Go In Their Offices And There Are Scripts Everywhere And There's About Four Or Five Of Them You Really Want To Make.

What I Learned Is, Don't Forget Who You Are, Because That's What's Going To Make You A Filmmaker.

Well, We Studied A Lot Of Books And Things Like That. Denzel Has A Personal Experience With It, Not Himself, That's His Business-i Won't Get Into That, But He Knows A Lot About It As Well. So, We Took Some Real Life Experiences That We Both-i've Been Told That I Have Ocd.

I Would Be Lying To You If I Said I Wouldn't Love For It [equalizer] To Become A Franchise, I Would Love For It To Become A Hit And All That Great Stuff. Who Knows-you Just Make The Best Movie You Can Make, You Know It's Like, Eat The Whole Thing, One Piece At A Time. And Then, We'll See What Happens, I Would Love For It To Be.