No movie can claim to be a work of philosophy. They fulfill a totally different need in people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You need philosophy. It sounds a little pompous but I think when you direct a film, the only way to find a response to the questions you keep asking yourself is to have a philosophy.
I think that a movie can only be an adjunct or only a supplement to books, to different points of view, to scholars, historians and your own teachers.
Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.
Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.
The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story.
To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.
We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don't.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.