Cinema, in its essence, is like an introduction to reality. Because cinema is where reality is actually reproduced. And for the audience, it might sound like a storytelling medium. I, being a member of the ever-so-present audience, feel that maybe literature is better for telling a story. And if you tell a story or even a joke, like "This guy walks into a bar and, you know, he sees a dwarf." That works really well because you're imagining this guy and this dwarf in the bar and there's this kind of imaginative aspect to it. But in film, you don't have that because you actually are filming a specific guy, in a specific bar, with a specific dwarf, of a specific height, who looks a certain way. There’s a certain connection, between photography and film. It’s as if, film making is photography itself, except that it adds this dimension of time to it, and this greater realism.

And I think the whole film making industry these days is just taking films and trying to make it like the storytelling medium where you take books or stories, and then you make the script, and you try to find a person who sort of fits the thing.
I think it's ridiculous, because I feel it shouldn't be based on the script. It should be based on the person, or the thing, under concern. And in that sense, they are almost right to have this whole star system, because then it's about that person, instead of the story.

Francis Ford Coppola always said the best films aren't made ... the films ... The best scripts don't make the best films, because they have that kind of literary narrative thing that you're a slave to. The best films are the ones that aren't tied to that. What one observation I’d want to make here, is the way there's narrativity to music; to a particular set of tones, played behind the scene that adds to the emotion. But, you don't first think of the story of the song, and then make the song. It has to come out of that moment. And that's what a movie has. It's just that moment, which is what matters.