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What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.

— Satyajit Ray

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

— D. A. Pennebaker

One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.

— Ken Adam

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

— Bill Forsyth

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

— Roland Joffe

A film adaptation is, I hope, the director's version. A new creation.

— Katherine Dunn

An actor tries to be versatile, to immerse himself in a different culture.

— Jimmy Smits

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

— Michael Haneke

✗Opposing Perspectives

The whole film is about people being convinced that they can reduce themselves to their archetypes.

— Atom Egoyan

Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.

— Octavia E. Butler

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

— David Lean