I think the movie, 'Joy,' has so many touchpoints with so many people because it is about the ordinary, but a lot of the times, the ordinary is extraordinary.
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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
When I was doing 'Ordinary People' and 'Taps,' I never wondered if it would have a lasting impression. I was just wanting to make the best film we could and do my part in that and be true to what my responsibilities were.
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.
Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is.
The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.
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