"As a director, you must be capable of pushing and pulling an audience’s attention in whatever..."

“As a director, you must be capable of pushing and pulling an audience’s attention in whatever direction the story demands. After all, the great pioneer of early cinema, Georges Melies, was actually a magician before he became a filmmaker…. the whole point of the magician is to destroy the logical and the rational.” - Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog (via ourcoldsummers)

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