If you give an answer to your viewer, your film will simply finish in the movie theatre. But when you pose questions, your film actually begins after people watch it. In fact, your film will continue inside the viewer.
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You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.
You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.
I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.
You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.
I don't know - I haven't seen any of my movies after I finish them. I leave the editing room; I don't go back.
In theatre, once you've got the character and you've got things together, you can relax into it. Film has a different feel - you don't get that through line of not stopping. Theatre is like a snowball gathering momentum and getting bigger, whereas in film, it's a bit stop and start - but you do tend to adjust to that quite easily.
I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre.
In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.