Film is this incredible medium that allows us to feel empathy for people that are very different than us and worlds completely foreign from our own.
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I think empathy is a beautiful thing. I think that's the power of film though. We have one of the most powerful, one of the greatest communicative tools known to man.
Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.
I always felt there was a kind of humanistic impulse in my thinking about film as well as a real interest in its formal and aesthetic properties - just this idea that it can bring you into a very intimate encounter with people.
Film is a collective experience, as you know.
Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.
A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
Films should have the capacity to bring you into another world.
Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.
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