When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.
I always start a film thinking I know how to do it, then I learn all over again.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
We all learn every day, and that's the magic about film making.
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can't just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
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