https://www.avclub.com/nicole-holofcener-indie-filmmaking-comments-black-widow-1851575986

Per the AV Club and The Hollywood Reporter:

“Independent movies when I was coming up in the ’90s were really exciting and open, and studios were willing to take chances on me—weirdos. I was at Sundance with Todd Solondz and Quentin Tarantino,” Holofcener said during a Q&A at the Czech Republic’s Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

That’s the sentiment echoed in my introduction to my series on indie films of the 1990s. There was risk-taking on the business side, but there was also a market—interest from the public! Now, Holofcener laments that “so many theaters in New York where my movies used to play are gone.” 

There is streaming, but “there are too many little pictures. You don’t know what you’re going to watch or why.” In other words, audiences have decision paralysis. Understandable, then, they hew with what they know: franchises, sequels, “IP,” as we call it.

The interview goes on to lament the advent of AI and the pitfalls of the WGA deal. But at least the brilliant writer-director of Lovely & Amazing recognizes the incredible chance she gets to write for Marvel and Disney, even if it is to give female characters personality—something any half-awake writer should be able to do. Obscene, indeed.