So I began to make more and more films in line with what I'd been alerted to and sensitized to. It shares qualities with many other media. There's all kinds of works that use time, compared to painting. Time in painting is more interesting because the time pivots on one single image, which is timeless. And there's no saying how long, in time, a painting is or the experience of a painting is.
Painting does, yes.
Where film is actually, unless somebody is doing something very novel, tends to be cadenced in a certain distance in time. That's its time. The time of this scene, the time of this connection, the time of the entire work. I should say this, once you see a film it collects in your mind into a single image also. It's all there at once, which is what a painting is.