Tsai: I always hoped that the audience would find these small, subtle details in my movies because you don’t see them elsewhere in other movies. Movies nowadays are all about stories. They’re in a hurry to impress you with a storyline. Within your lifetime you have to hear thousands and thousands of stories. We often forget to reflect upon the small things in our lives. That’s why, I believe, my movies are important. To me the most important thing is not whether the audience likes my movies, or whether they are liked more by festival audiences than the general public; the most important thing to me is whether the movie is important to me. People may fall asleep with my movies; but, when I see kung fu movies, I fall asleep as well. So my movies went from nobody wanting to see them to last year when 130,000 people went to see my movies.
The Evening Class: 2006 TIFF—The Evening Class Interview With Tsai Ming-Liang
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