Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
It is doubtless one of Aristotle's great services that he conceived so clearly the truth that literature is a thing that grows and has a history.
I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.
Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.
Poetry is a totally different art than film.
I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.
Long before we created libraries, or even books, poetry was the way we humans remembered who we were, a primary means of documenting and contemplating our lives.
Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
A book makes claims of literary art.
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