Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
When you're making a film all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.
There's such an immediate intimacy with film that you just don't get in theater.
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.
When you come to do the film, it is not the time to wonder why you do it. It's just how to do it.