Complex sentence: The distributor also wanted to make the pages in the book shown in the film as plain title cards which Dreyer did not allow, saying that the old book is not an text in the ordinary sense, but an actor.
Split into simpler sentences: The distributor also wanted to make the pages in the book shown in the film as plain title cards which Dreyer did not allow. Dreyer responded to this idea, saying that the old book is not an text in the ordinary sense, but an actor.