Do directors think their own movies are kino? I mean unless

I think it depends on the intent that the director has. For example Fincher has made the "meme" distinction in interviews before about the difference between a movie and a film. So when he made Panic Room he didn't come out of it thinking, damn I just made some high quality kino but rather that he just made a very good b-movie thriller which was a bit of a logistical experiment. However that means that there are many directors who truly believe that they are setting out to make kino and think that they are doing that and achieving it. This is where you get into the dishonesty meme. Was making kino the intent or was creating the characters and story and telling it well the intent and it happened to be kino.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au9o69tXppQ

>I think Avatar plays on multiple levels.
>I think that it is a film that you have to think about.
>I think it is kind of a little bit of a challenging story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEQiHCL7gFA