Trusting Your Gut: Texas Film Awards Honoree Michael de Luca on a Life in Cinema

: If you got up there and had to make the argument for why they're giving you this award, what would be your thesis defense of the career of Mike de Luca?: This is the hardest question I've ever been asked 'cuz my personality is such that I only think about my mistakes, right?

Having come from independent film, starting at New Line, I'm so in line with the Austin Film Society's mission of trying to give new voices and independent filmmakers and beginning filmmakers a shot. I think that's so important to kind of refresh the industry with new talent, every chance you get. In both waves there was a large amount of graduating classes of new filmmakers. So it was exciting to be around all that new talent, you know, whether it was Steven Soderberg with. In that first wave, there was Spike Lee, and Kevin Smith was a beneficiary of the second wave. It was just great to be around, all this emerging talent.

But producers are usually the first people in and the last people out in terms of putting the project together, managing the investment for the studio, the financiers, getting the director through the shoot and post-production, and then presiding over or consulting or managing the release and distribution of the movie with the studio.: Oh, the writing thing, yeah. I originally went to NYU thinking, that I wanted to be a writer director. And I guess, I tried the writing thing. Yeah.

So where we are right now is kind of where I thought we'd end up, which is streaming is here to stay. It's a part of our lives. I'm a consumer, I love it. You know, there are things that I'm happy to watch at home and I love the breadth of series, especially Netflix with all the international stuff they do.

And I think now if you look at the way Wall Street is treating, Netflix and Disney and, and even ourselves, you know, with Warners and HBO Max, the belief that just endless volume would get you endless subscriber growth, that balloon is kind of been punctured. Now Wall Street wants to see earnings and revenue.

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