I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
You make the choice. You look at each scene and you make sure that this is not a person deceiving people.
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.