Brian De Palma on modern movies: "They all look the same"

People forget there's a whole world of independent and international cinema out there, if you look beyond Marvel etc. that can stand shoulder to shoulder with the best of the classics. In many cases they rely on the affordability and logistical freedoms of digital.

I revert once again to my man Lav Diaz

You own the brush now, you own the gun, unlike before, where it was all owned by the studio. Now it is all yours. It is so free now. I can finish one whole film inside this room . . . We do not depend on film studios and capitalists anymore. This is liberation cinema now . . . Digital is liberation theology. Now we can have our own media. The Internet is so free, the camera is so free. The issue is not anymore that you cannot shoot. You have a South East independent cinema now. We have been deprived for a long time, we have been neglected, we have been dismissed by the Western media. That was because of production logistics. We did not have money, we did not have cameras, all those things. Now, these questions have been answered. We are on equal terms now.