I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything.
A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed.
Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.
Film provides an opportunity to marry the power of ideas with the power of images.
I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.
What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.
I really think the key to a film is the chemistry of people.
Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.