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.
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For me, I see filmmaking as art.
My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.
I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.
Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically.
Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.
I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.
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