To be immortal and then die
Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle.
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.
I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.