: Is it the right length? : I think that it's satisfying and that it's the right length. If you're satisfied when you walk out of the theatre it's the right length.
Because what you have to do is when you end the picture, that feeling of satisfaction is because of an accumulation of everything you've seen previously. That whole maelstrom doesn't work unless you have all the build up to it. : When I first met you twenty years ago you were a young and idealistic filmmaker with a partner and the whole world was ahead of you.
Did you ever think that you would end up where you have and how have you changed and how has the film industry changed in that twenty years? : Well I think, you know, through the twenty years you gain more confidence, you feel better about what you're doing and how you're doing it, you learn a lot, you gain a lot of knowledge so it makes your job a little easier. Filmmaking is so much more inventive and interesting now because we have these digital effects which we can do now which we couldn't do before.
So a whole world has opened up to us that we couldn't imagine doing. That maelstrom at the end of this movie, Davy Jones in he second movie and the third movie, you couldn't do that twenty years ago. And that's what so exciting about the future of film.
Because who knows what's going to happen. I mean 3D - you might be watching theatre in front of you, you might have a screen right there and the character really in the living room creating all this in front of you, you know, a holograph. I don't know what's coming but I know it's going to be exciting because you look at twenty years ago, we didn't have cell phones right?
Even before that we didn't have DVD players, we only had VHS. We had nothing. When you think about it.
And that's only been a short period of time. How fast this has evolved. Think about it.
: Nothing was around. : Nothing was there. : But yet you wee a product of the times in which you made films.
When Flashdance was very much a product of its era - you couldn't make a Top Gun today could you, and get away with, given what's been going on in the world. Jerry I think every movie has its time and place. And that was the time and place for Top Gun.
: Is there a film that you've made in the past that you look back with a degree of reference? : I think you look back at all of them and say, you know, 'How could I have done it better?' and I feel proud of the work we've accomplished over the last twenty-seven years - thirty years.
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