He made the film as an independent filmmaker, putting some of his own money (earned by acting) into the film, and got some money from a private backer, but working utterly outside the system of German filmmaking.
His death has rendered his work utterly clear, like the water he wrote of, the water that wanted to live.
Carmen (2007): Sally Potter joined the list of film directors who showed that staging opera is harder than it seems with this bloodless show, making one of the most visceral of all 19th-century works utterly uninvolving.
For one thing, we planned to shoot a film about our travels, and Omar had persuaded me the secret to good film-making was to begin work utterly unprepared.
His 86-year-old grandson, John Cone, accused Oates of "trying to cash in on grandfather's memory", and the biographer William Pritchard, author of Frost: A Literary Life Reconsidered, dubbed the work "utterly preposterous and quite distasteful", according to New Republic.
Knowing that such violence, real as it is, doesn't have an effect on a real person does change the power of the art work, utterly — at least it did for me.
This is a gentle, thoughtful and subtly profound work, utterly without pretension or pyrotechnics, by a Japanese poet in his 60s, and – I am almost inclined to say "and yet" – The Guest Cat has been a runaway success in France and America; it's also been catching on in the UK, and its appearance in this column means that I wish it all the best, too.
Similarly in The Spire, the building of the cathedral may stand for many kinds of aspiration yet the toil and sweat of the artisans, and the materials with which they are working, are utterly real.
Everybody who worked there was utterly miserable, morale was terrible and I was spending my whole time with lawyers, which I really don't like doing, to no avail".
The message worked and seemed utterly harmless because it was playing off of lots of thick but voluntary social discipline.
