For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
There's always gonna be people with a lot of money making film, and the goal is to make profit and carry on. It is a business. The goal is to make a living doing it and to be comfortable.
Cinema is a world of imagination.
Writers would hate me saying this, and I love words, but I have to say that cinema exists, on one level, for the power of the big image and what that image does.
Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.