People are always reading things into the films.
Your relationship to a film, and to cinema, is very much determined by yourself, so what is relevant is you.
I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
There's no wrong way to experience a film.
Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.
...it is fifty percent what they see, and fifty percent what they think they see.
The observer must learn to look at the picture as a graphic representation of a mood and not as a representation of objects.
Once biographical information contaminates your consciousness, it's impossible to erase it and look at someone's work the same way again.
It's kind of hard to enjoy the film when you are watching yourself the whole time. But you do get on with it and try and appreciate everything else about the movie. At least that's what I do. It depends on how fresh in my memory the whole experience is.
It's weird when you're watching yourself in a film - you can't really detach yourself from the experiences you've had that day. You're never watching the film as a proper punter.
