The thing about this movie is that many people believe I’m making it simply to appeal to the Bronies when really I’m not. Catering just to one audience is the equivalent of selling out, at least in my opinion.

The reason I’m making Journey of the Spark is simply because I wanna tell a damn good story because I felt it was a story that needed to be told. What the Bronies think of the movie I personally don’t really care about. What does matter to me is whether or not it’ll get an emotional response from the people I do want the movie to appeal to: a general audience.

That’s why I make movies, to take chances and to tell emotionally resonant films with ideals and values that reflect how I view the world and the human race as a whole. Being a humanitarian, I wanna tell stories that help people see both their good traits and their own flaws and encourage them to better themselves and give them that sort of inspiration.

And its a shame because I feel as though far too many fan films in the community are making their movies for the wrong reasons. They focus specifically on getting their name out there and appealing specifically to fan-reactions and fan-service instead of actually focusing on the story and what its gonna say to people. It ends up resulting in stories that feel like something out of a fanfiction and remotely bland cliches and OC characters. That’s just my opinion though.