The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
It's very weird about movies: you never know which ones are going to stay alive and which one are going to be meaningless. When you're there, you couldn't possibly predict it. Some things slowly die, and others slowly stay a while.
That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience.
Going to the movies still remains, arguably, amongst the best communal experiences that human beings can share.
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.
We see death constantly on film.
I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.