Cinema is a specificity of vision. It’s an approach in which everything matters. It’s the polar opposite of generic or arbitrary and the result is as unique as a signature or a fingerprint. It isn’t made by a committee, and it isn’t made by a company, and it isn’t made by the audience. It means that if this filmmaker didn’t do it, it either wouldn’t exist at all, or it wouldn’t exist in anything like this form.
Gary Oldman in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Theodór Júlíusson in Volcano
Sergey Bodrov in Brother
data is a representation of real life. It’s not just a bucket of numbers. There are stories in that bucket. There’s meaning, truth, and beauty.
Nathan Yau in Visualize This
Jô Shishido and Anne Mari in Branded to Kill
filmmakers are not court stenographers, and movies are not transcripts
Erika Bók in Satantango
on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.