The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.
Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.
Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.
You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.
I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
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