I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it. Federico Fellini
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The great Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, of whom Orson Welles said, "If you have an original mind, you have to invent your own language," once described the process of unconscious knowledge in his book The Undiscovered Self. In it he wrote, "The unconscious has no language." In other words, it is impossible to explain the unconscious with rational terms. In this quote, Orson Welles is implying that understanding a film or message is not necessary in order to receive it. All that is required is to let the unconscious know that you are receptive to it in some way and then allow its message to unfold in a fluid manner.

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