Speaking about The Florida Project, Baker lamented that it took a big name like Willem Dafoe for the film to become a more mainstream success and get award nominations.
Tangerine was his breakthrough, a film about embattled trans sex workers that managed to be funny, followed up by The Florida Project, a film about poverty-stricken families outside Disneyland that managed to be warm and celebrate childhood.
“I see people want me to tell stories about the contemporary US and I am taking that to heart.”
“I did have scripts ready to go but I have fallen out of love with them,” he said.