Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Movies are movies: they take you back in time, and how it still is for some.
I mean, movies in general tend to sort of portray time, space and identity as these very solid things. Time moves forward. Space is what it is. You are you, and you're always you.
Because you're telling a story, and I'm sure people fifty years ago would tell the same story differently if they were telling it to you today. Because the time is different. The film is the work of today's audience.
A movie, it's like a very complicated timepiece. There's a lot of wheels in a watch. And some of those wheels, if they don't turn right, then, you know, the watch ain't gonna tell the time.
Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
Time puts things in proper perspective.
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
A film has its own life and takes its own time.
I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.