If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
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.
You may not quite understand the cinematic tricks that go behind the making of a film, but as long as you feel it, I think that's the important thing.
Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.