Do you find it bizarre how in depth some people dissect your works?

“I do find it strange because the naiveté with which we [film movies] is so far removed from the complexity of the papers that I read. We’re sitting there and we’re thinking, God, how are we going to make this scene work? It’s dying. Let’s grab something from the end of the picture and stick it over here, otherwise it’s not going to work. And, quick, let’s change this piece of music. It’s so patchwork and fighting for survival when you put the film together. And then someone will send me a thesis and it’s as though I was trying, with a forehand knowledge, to do this, as if it was all done by design. But it isn’t. And I’m only shocked that I see a huge amount of papers and books and masters degrees written by social psychologists and analysts. It’s the strangest thing to me. And sometimes when I leaf through them, some of the insights are good and some of them are, to me, preposterous.”

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