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I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something.

Making a film is like making a mixtape. You're collecting all this stuff and putting your favorite stuff into it: you have actors that you like, characters that you're interested in, moments you want to explore, themes you want to deal with, music that you want to put in. It's a pastiche of all these things that deal with how you see the world.

Growing up, a film was an action film or it was a comedy or it was romantic, but you don't really see such stark lines between genres nowadays.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.