When you boil it down, most movies are message movies. And I think careers are made in message movies.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.
For me, filmmaking is not exactly a career. I was never in it for Hollywood or anything. My films are markers of where I am in life, where I am in my head. So that's what I'm working on, and I try to keep things in proportion - life and filmmaking. One feeds into the other.
What career? A man's got a body of film of about four movies in about 10 years or something. I do it because I think I can do a good job of something and I'll enjoy it, do it, and sort of vanish. I don't want to be an actor for hire.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
I don't think good films have messages.
I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.
I've never looked at film-making as a career. I've looked on film-making as an adventure. When you come down the mountain, you get ready to climb again.