Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've really grown to love film, but I think occasionally you need to get up on a stage and see what's going on.
I still enjoy watching films more than making them.
Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.
I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me.
Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.
People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
Once I finish a film, I don't ever see it again. Never ever. I have never seen any of my films since I finished them.
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
There's no more film. Film is gone. We photograph digitally and electronically. We don't really use film the same way anymore - it's disappearing little by little. Things change. We have to change with them. There's no point in liking or not liking it. It is what it is.
I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.