Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
Interpretation
Cinema allows for exploration of multiple perspectives and experiences simultaneously, unlike real life.
This quote suggests that cinema has a unique ability to transcend the limitations of time and experience by allowing viewers to inhabit different roles, such as that of a grandparent and a grandchild, at once. It highlights the immersive and transformative power of film to present narratives that intertwine various life stages, offering a rich scope of understanding that is not possible in the actual flow of life.
In practice
A filmmaker discussing the emotional depth of their latest work at a film festival.
Digital photography is, by definition, unfinished. You don't feel that after every 24 or 36 shots you have to change your film - you know you can go on for ever if you want. You can see the result immediately, and find out if your original idea is worth going on with or not, whether it can be corrected, whether it can be improved.
When I talk to some of the younger filmmakers, they are so worried about their films that, eventually, this state of being worried reflects itself in and helps the final work. Whereas, with projects that are meticulously planned, you look at the end result and it is full of emptiness.
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity?
Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.
The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.
Yes, every venture is always filled with apprehensions. But if we were to conduct ourselves continuously on that aspect, then we would lose the most important reason to be in this profession: to challenge the art of and be part of what is commonly known as our creative instincts.
In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.
paraphrasing.."Science is the language of the intellect of society. Art is language of the entire human personality.
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