What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
One thing I try to avoid in my films are effects that have a CG 'look' to them. The challenge is never let the audience get distracted by thinking that they're watching something made in a computer.
When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.
I just shot my first dramatic movie in France, and for those dramatic scenes that I shot, I would not want to look at those. There's a certain mindset you have to put yourself into for those scenes, and looking at the monitor would just take you out of it.
I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.
My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.
One has to view things realistically.
I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.
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