After years of doing independent films instead of fielding big-budget studio offers, Reeves concluded that he was no longer hot stuff in Hollywood. Speaking with IndieWire in 2014 about the downward turn his career has taken over the years, he confessed his displeasure with the development.        

"So I haven't been getting many offers from the studios. ... it sucks, but it's just the way it is." But as he carefully explained, not to offend anyone, he doesn't hate small independent films, but it comes with a trade off. "You can have positive and negative experiences, but what I like about studios are the resources and the worlds that they can create," he said. "Obviously, a lot of good filmmakers work on studio movies."

"Even when I was working on studio movies more often, I was always doing independent movies," Reeves continued. "I want to keep going, making things, and telling stories. I want to be able to do that — to be an actor, a director, to produce, you know? If we're going to do a delineation between studio and independent, I was always hoping to do both."

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