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.
Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.
On TV you can't show landscapes. You just can't. Even a postcard is better.
I would never see a good movie for the first time on television.
TV has nothing to do with painting. It's just transmission.
Americans have no past, so they buy the pasts of others.