[lbo-talk] "Ambiguities"

[Michael Hoover]

responding to no particular poster...

re. subject heading, hong kong cinema director peter
chan told the authors of this really cool book  called 
_city on fire_ that 'when you make a movie you can't
really expect anything from the audience, people like
it for different reasons, they see it at different levels,
i don't get frustrated when people interpret my movies
because when you've made a movie, your movie is not
your movie anymore - it's theirs, they have their
interpretation and you can't change it. You can't tell
them "but that's not what i meant", you're not standing
in front of the theatre trying to explain it, i get a lot of
bonus things from reactions from people to my movies
that i never even dreamed of, that i never even intended
to put their, and those things become things that actually
educate me for my next movie'...   mh