The same is true for picture making too. The process of thinking/feeling/working to make the image is the point. Otherwise we are all just egesting ‘content’.

Several obituaries have described him as a surrealist. That doesn’t seem exactly right. The US is a surrealist country about which he made realist films. I can’t think of another filmmaker who ‘got’ post-War America like he did. We are unlikely to see another.