There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.
I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'
By the nature of cinema and how it literalizes what we envision, movies can have difficulty replicating that connection we make with a classic book.
I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
I think 'Jaws' is a remarkable film.
'The Whale' was in the category of so-called serious music, and yet it brings together a wide series of musical styles. It was influenced by people such as The Beatles, the spirit of the times, and I think 'The Whale' certainly had a pop element to it.
There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
The film 'The Cove' made people aware of the Japanese slaughter of whales.
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