The film industry often becomes an arena of clashing multidirectional interests – creative, commercial, and ideological. Making a film is, of course, creativity. This work of art exists, among other things, for commercial purposes. Leonardo da Vinci created his masterpieces for money, and Fyodor Shalyapin said that only birds sing for free. The drama is that it is extremely difficult for state managers regulating the industry to understand the driving motives and psychology of people making films, because they have never been fully immersed in this process. These two groups have completely different ideas about how to make films. And this is precisely what explains the disagreements between the film business and the state...
Officials and people making films have different ideas about how to make films. Producer Igor Tolstunov in a column for Forbes told about the role of the state in the domestic film industry