We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.
Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it’s simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don’t choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I’ll decide what genre I need. That’s just how I work.
I think people are universal.
Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It’s the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
I don’t have a checklist. Whatever material excites me, they’ll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It’ll come naturally and I’ll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I’ll probably break some of them.