Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out
Movies touch our hearts and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places, they open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our life time, we need to keep them alive.
There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
When I was growing up, I don’t remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit.
If your mother cooks Italian food, why should you go to a restaurant?
Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
Now more than ever we need to talk to each other, to listen to each other and understand how we see the world, and cinema is the best medium for doing this.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Any film, or to me any creative endeavour, no matter who you’re working with, is, in many cases, a wonderful experience.
Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.
Very often I’ve known people who wouldn’t say a word to each other, but they’d go to see movies together and experience life that way.
I do know that some Buddhists are able to attain peace of mind.
It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily.