Historia de un Amor
I sit alone in the theater of fate searching for comedy and drama at the same time. Chaplin is the quintessential hero. He makes you feel pathos and laughter simultaneously. I want the viewer to discover. I want to surprise them with my Felliniesque reality. With every turn of the page they should complete the story through their own mythology. The more ambiguous the better. I see life as theater and its people walking on the stage we call reality… You weave them into the rectangle and hope for the best. It's a matter of being at the critical distance and capturing the accident, as Cartier Bresson called the decisive moment.
… How many times people have told me “get a job, Art is not a job, it’s a hobby.” I disagree vehemently. To judge it as an extravagance is like saying that Moby Dick is a book about whales.
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