'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.
I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
Cinema is an art form.
When you do a film as unique and original as 'Napoleon Dynamite,' it's hard then try to repeat what audiences loved the first time.
I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.
Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.
Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.
All my life, I have loved and been inspired by French cinema, and as a studio head it has been my pride and joy to have the ability to bring movies to audiences around the world.
The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.
I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.