Jessica Mae Stover
Jessica Mae Stover is an American actor, auteur director, screenwriter, filmmaker, and author.
When you’re an artist, you don’t want to deal with business. The business nuances are incredibly difficult. But you need to understand a defunct system in order to make it work or change it, and that took me a lot of research. If you’re not willing to do that, I say you’re not ready.
If crowdfunding has this idea of rebellion to it, and of circumventing the system, then these crowdfunding sites aren't really freedom. We're just creating another gatekeeper.
Maybe it’s counter to your philosophy--as it is to mine--to want to sell people things they don’t need, that will end up in landfills. Maybe you would actually like to make money off of creating art--which is your job. Maybe you don’t want to be in the advertising business.
Hollywood doesn’t make movies anymore, they make licensing platforms.
There are a lot of people who would be into what we’re doing, but how do you reach them without a marketing budget?