authoroftheaccident: “I am lost when I don’t film. Yes, I only feel alive when I am shoo
authoroftheaccident: “I am lost when I don’t film. Yes, I only feel alive when I am shooting. Well, I’m exaggerating, it’s getting a bit better after making six-and-a-half films.But when I decided to become a filmmaker it was because I felt I was more alive on a set, somehow. Which is the most mysterious thing ever for me. Like, why this and not something else? I guess it has to do with the intensity of shooting, and also with the chance that fiction brings a chance to turn something painful into something joyful. But, that was very clear to me from the start, and since then I’ve had this obsession of making another film and another film and never stopping until I’m dead, basically.And I think it’s some kind of dependence. You could say I’m addicted to filmmaking. It doesn’t mean I would shoot like whatever — that I would just shoot for the sake of a shoot — not at all. On the contrary, I consider like each of my films as a matter of life and death. Each of my films is equally important to me in terms of what I try to express and how sincere I’m trying to be at this moment of my life, but I think I have a real addiction. Maybe filming is what saves me from other addictions.”- Mia Hansen-Løve on ‘Maya,’ ‘Bergman Island,’ and Her Addiction to Filmmaking -- source link