I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.
Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.
The final product becomes a passionate reflection of all that was revealed to me about my subjects during intense moments of personal clarity.
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment . . .
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.