MovieRetriever: I heard Robert Duvall on Howard Stern the other day and he spent a long time talking about the difficulty in getting small films financed. There’s been a nagging thought in my mind lately that the effect of the recession on the independent film market has been a bit underreported. How much do you think the recession has impacted the film world and how did it impact this film specifically?

AARON SCHNEIDER: Ours was a five-year journey starting in about 2004. And if you plotted the curve that got off us the ground against the economy, they’re opposite. And the other curve would be the mini-majors closing down. So, as we’re trying to gear up and make progress, the world banking market was collapsing and the indie arms of the studios were closing down. It seems to be a trend in my life. I graduated college into a recession. I couldn’t think of a worse time to get an indie movie off the ground.

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