All movies assault the viewer in one way or another.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Films are artifice. We're telling stories on film. At the same time, when it works, there is a real tough immediacy and spontaneity to it, and a punch.
Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.
Sometimes I find some movies patronizing, which I feel is the ultimate crime.
I don't require movies to be about good people, and I don't reject screen violence.
You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.
Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act.
There is violence in real life but I would never impose violence in a film just to attract the audience.