I have a confession. There are classic movies I've never seen. Not because I don't know they exist. Not because I don't respect them.
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I just... never got around to them.
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The other day I was listening to The Movies That Made Me podcast, and they mentioned one of those "every filmmaker should ...
 Movies have been declared dead more times than I can count, and well before I became a filmmaker. Every decade, someone swears it’s over.
Television was supposed to kill movies.
Home video was supposed to kill movies.
Netflix! (To be fair, streaming) was definitely supposed to kill movies.
And ye...
In case you haven’t seen my film Maya & Her Lover, just know it features a couple of raw sex scenes. Kind of right there in the title, no?
My original title was Meeting Maya—which honestly sounds like a coming-of-age indie film where nothing happens but a lot of people stare out of windows. I wante...
