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Since you’ve done this studio movie now, is it going to be easy to go back to independent films?
Mark Polish: “I think so because it’s still, at the end of the day, it’s still hard work. You’re still making the same decisions you were making with no money. You still have a limited amount of time.”
Michael Polish: “It was $12 million to make this movie in 33 days. Northfork was 24 days, our last picture. So, you know, 9 days difference and it didn’t feel any different.”
You said you have 10 scripts written. How do you decide which comes next?
Mark Polish: “We have small stuff, we have big stuff.”
Michael Polish: “I think audiences like that we do stuff that’s different so we have a need to fulfill to bring our stories. Our next story’s just bigger. It’s nice to get bigger. We needed a canvas that’s a little bit bigger for the next one so it will be a bigger budget. If the studio said, ‘No, we can’t do it,’ we’d go make a $2 million movie. We’d do that, too. Budgets are not going to dictate our movies. They never had.”
Are you always going to be partners?
Mark Polish: “So far, so good. We don’t go into it saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to do the next picture or whatever.’ If an acting job comes up, then… But we’re having a good time.”
Michael Polish: “We enjoy each other’s company. It’s always good to have someone by you that understands. And you know, we’re going from city to city doing this and it’s real fun to have company.”
