"Here's my answer about being hated by critics and moviegoers in general.
First, I must say that since I was 8 or 9, I always dreamed of making movies. Not be a director, or get paid a lot of money or achieve any level of recognition and fame. I just loved making movies and exploring interesting ideas in those films. In that way, i guess I'm more like a painter or sculpture or even musician. I just do it for the love of it.
Because my Father was in the military, I spent my early years traveling around the world and during that time i saw mostly foreign films without the benefit of sub-titles or dubbing (thank god). so I learned to appreciate movie storytelling from an almost purely visual and sound design way.
I learned that stories could be told via composition, color, textures and light. And I really came to enjoy that form of storytelling. Where plot and character are revealed over time and I especially loved how movies back in the 60's like 2001: A Space Oydssey and the Bergman type films left everything open to a viewers own interpetition of story and character.
I loved how Godard, Belson and others really experimented with form and content. That was an exciting time for me in the cinemas. Every film seem to be so mind blowingly original. The Leone westerns were such a thrilling departure from the westerns coming out of Hollywood. I love that the dialogue was slightly out of sync, that the acting was so stylized.
In the early 70's I loved movies like Zabriske Point, El Topo, The Devils by Ken Russell.
So those films inspired me and shaped my filmmaking point of view."
First, I must say that since I was 8 or 9, I always dreamed of making movies. Not be a director, or get paid a lot of money or achieve any level of recognition and fame. I just loved making movies and exploring interesting ideas in those films. In that way, i guess I'm more like a painter or sculpture or even musician. I just do it for the love of it.
Because my Father was in the military, I spent my early years traveling around the world and during that time i saw mostly foreign films without the benefit of sub-titles or dubbing (thank god). so I learned to appreciate movie storytelling from an almost purely visual and sound design way.
I learned that stories could be told via composition, color, textures and light. And I really came to enjoy that form of storytelling. Where plot and character are revealed over time and I especially loved how movies back in the 60's like 2001: A Space Oydssey and the Bergman type films left everything open to a viewers own interpetition of story and character.
I loved how Godard, Belson and others really experimented with form and content. That was an exciting time for me in the cinemas. Every film seem to be so mind blowingly original. The Leone westerns were such a thrilling departure from the westerns coming out of Hollywood. I love that the dialogue was slightly out of sync, that the acting was so stylized.
In the early 70's I loved movies like Zabriske Point, El Topo, The Devils by Ken Russell.
So those films inspired me and shaped my filmmaking point of view."