For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.
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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
To me, the most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other and let sparks happen.
I like films that rest in the memory, so I try and choose parts which have some kind of social or emotional force.
The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.
I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.
I don't like films giving me answers. I like films that are provoking me, that are making me feel not only being in an easy place.
When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.
I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that I saw when I was a kid; anything you see in your formative years is more powerful, because it really stays with you forever. The second category is films that I saw while I was learning the craft of motion pictures.
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.
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