Sarah Polley is starting to understand ;)
August 15, 2008
. It isn’t that we — the average Canadian citizen — are telling filmmakers who receive large donations from the government trough that we would rather they “leave the country” to make their movies (although I’m still bitter that my tax dollars funded this movie, and that it is apparently considered to be a “good” example of what the Canadian film community can produce).
It’s that we don’t want to pay for crap. Make good movies, Ms. Polley, and you’ll probably find people willing to fund them. Make movies that trash the values that people hold dear, and their wallets will (surprisingly!) dry up, and then quickly.
