The Budget for One of the Year’s Best Movies Seems Impossible. Here’s How the Director Did It.

The Brutalist is the most exciting indie movie I've seen in years .

It took Brady Corbet seven years to finance and independently produce a period epic of three and a half hours .

Corbet: "It has never been more difficult than it is right now to make radical films that don't subscribe to the algorithm".

The Brutalist isn’t the most commercial subject, but when you were writing it, were you thinking in terms of having multiple lead parts that would attract big-name actors? When you’re writing, do you keep budgetary constraints in mind? No, but my back-of-the-cocktail-napkin math has gotten pretty good.

The Brutalist has been called a seven-year project, but the actual shooting schedule was something like 34 days ? It was 33 days . For me, the future of cinema is the past. We have no better technology than large format to make people get off their couch and go see a film in IMAX.