I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
When I watch a movie myself, I want to forget that I'm watching a movie, and I want to be inside the movie. That's the kind of experience I want my audience to have.
If you have skills to pull off even a four-hour film, people will go and watch it.
The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.
Movies alone have the hideous capacity to do everything for you. So in directing movies, you have to figure how to leave things out - because when you leave things out, you evoke the imaginative participation of the audience.
You don't work as hard to watch a movie. You work harder to watch a play, so what the audience puts into it is interesting.
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer.