has always been charmed by the idea of happily ever after. But as a hardened New Yorker, born and raised in Manhattan, he’s not naive enough to believe that’s always the way a love story ends.
“Dating and New York” came out in September 2021 and, as any filmmaker does, I had complete panic and fear of what would happen next.I had a project that I was really excited about called “The Bar Downstairs.” I wrote a script that I had ready to go, and I was going to independently finance it the same way we made “Dating and New York.” It was an empowering process with 33 investors and no one to tell me what I could and couldn’t do. My agents were like, “Look, you just did that.
Was there any desire to pull a “White Lotus” and set your film in a beautiful location on the studio’s dime?