You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.
Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
