Do you think it’s because filmmakers like them helped destroy the studio system in the sixties? That maybe Disney’s film monopoly reminds them of that particular era, and there’s just a natural opposition to it? I know that the sixties and seventies are my favorite film eras, and the collapse of that system is part of the reason why.

Not that movies were bad during the studio era, but the films that came after, really resonated with me, on a primal level, and could that be what they mean when they say that modern movies are not “cinema”? (You can see I’m still trying to parse the meaning, behind what was said, by a director I have so much esteem for.)