Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.
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For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
The contemporary notion that it's somehow inherently bad for a film to be 'talky' has done grave damage to the culture of American movie-making, enough so that a growing number of people, myself among them, have all but given up on Hollywood.
The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.
There's nothing more American than movies.
People have to identify with their own stories, with their own lives, so a movie belongs to a country and to a culture. Sometimes we can share, but it's very rare.
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
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