I was born in Hoboken. I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for Truth my obsession.
But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, 'Snow White and the Huntsman' is a considerable experience.
Every film is a journey.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
If I could find a way to make a film that takes you into the mind of a fighter, where you have 36 minutes of combat with so many different emotions, so many highs and lows, so many obstacles to overcome, I'd do that.
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
It's the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.
The method in which 'Vadachennai' is narrated gives a feeling as if you are travelling with the characters to the different eras where the various situations happen.
I love that there's a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
To transport picturegoers to a unique place in the glare of the earth, in the darkness of the heart - this, you realize with a gasp of joy, is what movies can do.
I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
I think of images as an immune system and a transit system.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
Well, I think it's important to have some kind of a narrative engine that pushes the audience through the landscape. But I love films like 'Apocalypse Now,' which is a very mood driven film. It's a magnetic force that's pulling them through.
I want the paintings to take me or the viewer out somewhere else.
I often want to go to the movies and see something that transports you beyond the infinite.
A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.
Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc.
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
