Movies started out as an extension of a magic trick, so making a spectacle is part of the game.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Movies are like magic tricks.
You can't blame movies for embracing spectacle; filmmakers since D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. De Mille have loved spectacle, and spectacle is something that movies convey like no other medium, especially in a digital age.
I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.
The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.
I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.
Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.
The kinds of films that I'm used to doing are independent films. They're very small character-driven pieces, and there isn't as much spectacle involved.
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.