He sums up his approach to filmmaking in the documentary when he says:
We decided we’d come up with a great idea, that we would buy all of our film equipment, but they wouldn’t give us any credit. So, we started our film without any money, and we just used people that would help us to make the film only because of their idealistic attitudes toward filmmaking, which is, in America, a business not an art. So, we’re saying [sound] with your business, and we’ll try to make it some kind of an art — art meaning that we will enjoy ourselves and express ourselves freely.
The enlightenment I anticipated from you is being replaced by another. This one doesn’t invite analysis or dissection, only observation and intuition. Instead of insights into, say, the construction of a scene, I’m becoming enlightened by the sly nuances of human nature.
Yeah, you are a great filmmaker, one of my favorites. But what your films illuminate most poignantly is that celluloid is one thing and the beauty, strangeness and complexity of human experience is another.
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