I mean, Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster is one of them. For Eternals, it was always the personality of the fight. Like who are these characters and what are their strengths and weaknesses? So when they get into a fight, you want to feel that.
How you treat cinema as a character study, a character portrait—that's what I've always been struck by and tried to internalize for my own work.
— Wong Kar-wai · Wong Kar-wai: The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (A24 book)
The thing that I'm always struck by, that I've tried to internalize for my own work, is how you treat cinema as a character study, a character portrait.
— Barry Jenkins · Wong Kar-wai: The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (A24 book)
The thing that I'm always struck by, that I've tried to internalize for my own work, is how you treat cinema as a character study, a character portrait.
— Wong Kar-wai · Wong Kar-wai: The Cinema of Wong Kar-wai (A24 book)