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I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a couple of hours. if the film truly succeeds in everything the filmmaker sets out for it to be, then it's elevated to art. it's elevated to something special, because it gives people a visceral feeling of something they're experiencing as a collective group. you feel something and that's what turns it into what you may call art.
-Antoine Fuqua
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I Think People Go To The Movies

Antoine Fuqua
I think people go to the movies to be entertained, to have an experience, to disappear from their own reality for a couple of hours. if the film truly succeeds in everything the filmmaker sets out for it to be, then it's elevated to art. it's elevated to something special, because it gives people a visceral feeling of something they're experiencing as a collective group. you feel something and that's what turns it into what you may call art.
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When critics or people judge, i think it's harder to make a commercial, pop movie than it is to make a pretentious art film. it's harder to reach millions of people and satisfy them and make them happy. these films kind of get ghettoized, this genre because there are so many big, big movies that are such big hits, but aren't any good. the audiences, they're not judging the style of the director, or the execution of the film. they're just looking to be entertained. they want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
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Intellectual culture seems to separate high art from low art. low art is horror or pornography or anything that has a physical component to it and engages the reader on a visceral level and evokes a strong sympathetic reaction. high art is people driving in volvos and talking a lot. i just don't want to keep those things separate. i think you can use visceral physical experiences to illustrate larger ideas, whether they're emotional or spiritual. i'm trying to not exclude high and low art or separate them.
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I want my audience to say, "wow, this is a film i'm benefiting from. i'm benefiting from what this filmmaker is trying to say." i'd always rather learn and be entertained than be entertained and feel myself getting dumber by the moment.
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I really think people are greatly stimulated and enriched by experiencing in film just as we can from novels and other art, experiencing things that resonate with what our lives are about. i think people really want to know... want to share, want to have the stimulus to think and care about the way they live their lives, the way they relate to other people, their aspirations, their hopes, et cetera.
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Well, there's two things i have criteria for doing a film: the script, which is the story, and the filmmaker, and it's a filmmaker's medium. i like really strong directors, and so when i do a film, i'm out there to serve the director, really, which is in turn to serve the script, to serve the director cause he's the one making the film. i relied on todd haynes for that.
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