I don't believe in the deplorable notion of realism in the cinema: you can over-reach it, and it becomes as false as convention.
Everything I try to do wants to be able to push communication through the notion of the visual image.
I think there is no future whatsoever in 3D. It does nothing to the grammar and syntax or vocabulary of cinema. And you get fed up with it in exactly 3 minutes.
Thanks to secondary education and the Internet, we're all knowledgeable now - if knowledge means the accumulation of facts. Curators are those who know how to maneuver around that knowledge.
If you think about it, most cinema is built along 19th-century models. You would hardly think that the cinema had discovered James Joyce sometimes.
I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.
