If I could pick out one career, it would be that of a filmmaker who wrote, directed and produced my own films. I'd even be willing to tolerate Hollywood egos to do this. I value art very highly, and I see motion pictures as potentially being the greatest art form, encompassing as they do images, movement and sound.
If I were a filmmaker, I would make suspense films about disturbing metaphysical concepts, such as the meaning of death, the possibility of fate, deep inner conflicts, flaws in human nature and the inescapable negative consequences of evil. They would contain many analogies and much symbolism about philosophical and religious questions. My films would never be "fun" or "fluffy" and they wouldn't have happy endings. (Returning to reality here) Since I'm not rich and I don't have "connections", this will never happen, however, so I am simply daydreaming. If you were a filmmaker with full creative control, what kind of motion pictures would you make? I appreciate all replies. Thank you very much.

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"Some people complain about the system. The system is not good, so they can't do anything. It's an excuse. Freedom is in your heart." (Jin Xing)

I'd like to make a film about the life of Harriet Jacobs. I can't believe no one has done so yet.

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"Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and the waves, and they obey Him." Luke 8:25

I'd be tempted to make horror films... but I feel modern film is inherently bad for real horror. Horror is based on subtlety and requires a lot of skill to translate into a film that interests today's audiences. And as much as I like stupid horror flicks, I can't bring myself to make one.

So I'd try my hand at dark comedy and dystopic satire.

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"It's never over... BOY!"
The Tall Man, Phantasm III

I would make sci-fi and fantasy films like star wars or lord of the rings.

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"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Nietzsche

I'm tempted to agree with Verg, but I guess I'd have to pick movies based on great novels like "Gone With the Wind", "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "The Count of Monte Christo". But, I would never do a remake.


Any other movie I would make would probably some aspect of time travel in it.

Raytri

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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive. - Theodore Roosevelt

good film noir, with a GOOD DOSE OF DARK COMEDY. (oops)

NO REMAKES! So no to the newer lazier holywood.

Ofcourse, since I do write, movies about my own books would be ideal

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left. - F.A. Hayek

Where have all the Conservatives Gone?

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Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left. - F.A. Hayek

Where have all the Conservatives Gone?