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Well, it’s unique in artistry when you compare it to sculpture or painting or dance because you can think of it as a theatre of thought. It’s the first time we’ve been able to choreograph human thought and make it understandable and watch people think on screen in motion. Obviously photographs can do this and paintings can capture a moment, and theatre does it to a certain extent, but it all happens through language. Music, you can say, is thought and emotion in a very abstract sense. But here we’re actually looking at specific human beings, watching them think and getting a huge kick out of that, because in life that’s mostly what we do. Film is the artistic manipulation of that same idea.