MS: At what point did Hollywood notice you? Was there one video that put you on their radar?
DF: No. You know, Hollywood always pretends not to notice you. I don't know. In a weird way, you have to be in LA long enough before anybody will realise that you're serious about it. The last thing they want to do is enable people who aren't going to be dedicated to their cause. I'd been making videos for 10 years, and this sounds stupid but I'd been there for six or seven years and felt like I had been there forever. I mean, I moved there in 1984 and started Propaganda Films in 1987, so I'd been doing commercials and videos for eight or 10 years before anybody gave me a shot at making a movie. And I wish they hadn't.
