Film Courage: Why do you say the movie business is a weird business?
R. Ellis Frazier, Director, Producer, CEO at BADHOUSE Studios: Well yeah, among other things. It’s a business that people really, really, really, want to be in and be successful at it and make a living. It attracts interesting characters. A lot of the time it attracts people that are risk takers. It attracts people that, let’s be real, can’t always be conforming into a corporate environment, they wouldn’t do well there. It’s not always they wouldn’t do well because they didn’t want to do well. Sometimes they wouldn’t do well because people would have a difficult time dealing with them. You’re dealing with people that really, really want to make this thing work but it’s very difficult to make work. When you get into it and there’s people around you trying to make their movie and television careers work, you get people that will just do strange things and stab you in the back, stab their friends in the back, snitch people out. There’s a lot at stake because the rewards are amazing. It’s the best business in the world and not everybody can be in it. Once you get your foot in the door and you can feel yourself maybe slipping, maybe it’s not going the way it’s supposed to, people can hold on super tight to try to stay in the business, to try to make it not my…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
R. Ellis Frazier is a producer and director, known for Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010), The Line (2009) and Misfire (2014) and many more. Frazier is the CEO of Badhouse Studios Mexico.
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