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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

Cinema is an art form.

Cinema at its best can express something of the pure irreducible fact of things.

For me, cinema's like a language - everyone has their own form of it.

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

Cinema is a world of imagination.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.

Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.