100 years ago, movies were black-and-white, silent, and 16 frames a second. So 100 years from now, what are they going to be?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.
I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
I think we are at the very beginning of high changes, not only in terms of digital film, but in the way the movies will be screened, whether they'll be screened on phones, on computers - on everything.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
It would be great to be 105 and still making films.
I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
A lot of my movies have come to be thought about only years after the fact, and I'm sad about that but also happy about it in a way, as it's given them longevity.
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.