Weerasethakul is one of the best known thai director around the world. Recently awarded with the Palme d’Or 2010, he has also worked with several prestigious museum, making his way into the artistic world. At that point, you could think someone like him would profoundly hate commercial works (made for the masses, the usual cliché).
Yet, when asked what made him want to direct films, he stays true to himself;
What made you want to become a filmmaker?
All the films I grew up with and the Hollywood movies in the ‘80s, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas… “E.T.” came out when I was 12, and Spielberg was the one who really tapped into the filmmaking style of the past, the way he used the tracking dolly shot, it was really special during that time. I fell in love with the movie, and I wanted to be part of the world. I didn’t know how. Eventually I saw some European films, all this diversity, but [my education in Chicago was the] turning point.[In another itw, he just said "The final shot of Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark. I was 11."]
Check out the rest of the interview, he made some comments on recent Hollywood films (Avatar, Inception), talked about his next project, and offers some leads to understand/feel his films.
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