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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.

Theater to me is acting but it's more real on film.

What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.

There's no doubt that some of the greatest films ever made have come from the theater. It's all a matter of finding a way to make the theater experience watchable on film.

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

Sometimes movies gloss over things, and it was important to me that this was realistic.