You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.
It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.
You don't want to make a movie just to make a movie. You better have a point of view.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.
There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.
You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.