A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
There shouldn't be any censorship on making a film.
The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.
No one can guarantee success of a film.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
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