00:00With all its talk of box office, the film business would have us believe that money drives movies.
00:16Ticket sales, marketing, glamour, premieres, red carpets.
00:24But it doesn't. Money doesn't drive cinema.
00:28The money men don't know the secrets of the human heart or the brilliance of the medium of film.
00:34But if money doesn't drive movies, what does?
00:38It's images and ideas that excite us, not money or showbiz.
00:44But if the business people don't control film, who does?
00:48Who knows how to get inside your head?
00:51David Lynch does.
00:53And Baz Luhrmann does.
00:54And in a different way, Samira Makmalbath does.
00:59The story of film An Odyssey is a global road movie to find the innovators, the people and films that give life to this sublime, ineffable art form, cinema.
01:13Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy ride.