There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.
Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.
Filmmaking is incredible introspective. It forces you to sort of examine yourself in new ways.
As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.
I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing. I began to think of art as elitist; film was not.
When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.
That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
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