The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it.
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.
The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically.
The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.
I don't believe there is something called 'film' and something called 'theater,' and that words belong in the theater. Some rather bad films have few words in them; some good films have a lot of words in them.
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.
So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.
Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.
I think a lot of writers are unrealistic about having their books translated into film.
But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.