You have to surrender less when you see a film than when you go and see something live.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
In film, you have to let go sometimes.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
People don't step outside themselves and make the film they want to make, because they're afraid of the reaction. But once you get that reaction and have lived through it, there's nothing they can do to get you down.
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.
Generally in my films like 'Hearts of Darkness' or 'Picture This,' I try not to make myself a presence in the film.
My belief is that no movie, nothing in life, leaves people neutral. You either leave them up or you leave them down.
If you are going to do a film properly you have to give yourself completely to it.
I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.