Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.
I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.
It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.
Maybe because I didn't have a huge film career right off the bat, I've been able to create something different, which is so important to me. That's myself, my idea of who I am.
There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
In a way, perhaps, there's an advantage of being on the edge of something and looking in as the observer, because as the filmmaker, you're the storyteller, and you're pulling out this universal story.
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