The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I have to point to something specific with the way I move my camera, I love to do it with a wide lens. I like to show you as much of the space as I can, even if I'm following a character.
So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.
3D prefers you to use wider lenses because when things are out of focus, and yet it's in 3D, it bothers you.
I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.
I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that's one of my strengths, because you have - every detail matters.
When I started making films, all the theaters, the screen would slide open the widest possible point, and that would be widescreen. But now, theaters are geared up for around 16:9, so scope is now 'letterboxed.' In a way, if you want the big picture, you shoot 16:9.
You have full-field view when you're watching the film. Eye in the sky, it's a lot easier to look at it that way than when you're back behind center.
My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.
The Universal view melts things into a blur.
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.