This is because he wanted the audience to "take away something" from the film.
But the question is simply this: do you want the audience to be one of those boxes?
He did not want the audience to be able to see the orchestra at all, so it is very low.
"Under no circumstances do I want the audience to agree with me," he said in an interview.
"We wanted the audience to feel that there was nothing between them and the actors," she says.
This is not the sort of picture that wants the audience to think too hard.
I wanted the audience to feel the human being behind the music.
I didn't want the audience to be a mob at the end of the movie.
We wanted the audience to become part of the action.
He simply wants the audience to let the music move them.