Not just art for art's sake, but I want to have films out there that will provoke authentic, holistic conversations about the human condition. And not provide the easy answers, but put it out there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm very interested in cinema that explores emotional journeys and where you can use everything at your disposal cinematically to locate you inside someone's head and their emotional landscape.
I'm interested in making films that make people think.
I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.
I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.
I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.
I want to make films that are political and social. Films with a message or an idea. Films that dare to ask.
I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.
I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don't really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes.
I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.
No opposing quotes found.