Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.
“I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.”
“No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.”