— I don't really like those kinds of films.
— Those kinds of films?
— Films with subtitles.
— What, did your school not teach you to read?
Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films
On winning the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film for Gisaengchung (2019).
A movie doesn't come all on one big reel. It comes on a few. So someone has to be there to switch the projectors, at the exact moment that one reel ends and the next one begins. If you look for them, you can see little dots, come into the upper right corner of the screen. That's the cue for a changeover. He flips the projectors, movie keeps right on going and nobody in the audience has any idea.
I came to Hollywood over 60 years ago and immediately fell in love with motion pictures. And it's a love affair that's lasted a lifetime. When I first arrived in Tinseltown, there were no cineplexes or multiplexes. No such thing as a Blockbuster or DVD. I was here before conglomerates owned the studios. Before pictures had special effects teams. And definitely before
box office results were reported like... Like baseball scores on the nightly news.
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
Stars don't make movies. Movies make stars.