In filmmaking, day by day you’re fighting against all elements, like sailing a boat, you know? If it’s bad weather, you have to react to that. If there’s no wind, you cannot move. So the audience is not always there, … Continue reading Born On This Day — April 21, 1946
Everything that I’ve done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I’ve never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget. —Edgar Wright Continue reading Born On This Day — April 18, 1974
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose. The … Continue reading Born On This Day — April 16, 1889
I see myself as a person who makes films about people, their conflicts, their condition, their failures and successes, the things that resonate—things that seem simple, but have universal meaning. To share experiences—that’s what art is for. I see film … Continue reading Born On This Day — April 13, 1944
What the studios want now is ‘risk-free’ films but with any sort of art you have to take risks. Not taking risks in art is like not having sex and then expecting there to be children. Here’s a tip to … Continue reading Born On This Day — April 7, 1939
All my films have been concerned simply with man as a social animal. —Roger Corman Continue reading Born On This Day — April 5, 1926
The head is a big cooking pot in which all ingredients are haphazardly mixed: everything you have experienced, read, seen in films. Then you ladle it out with what I hope is some kind of logic. For instance, blue-gray is … Continue reading Born On This Day — April 4, 1957
Why do people go to the cinema? What takes them into a darkened room where, for two hours, they watch the play of shadows on a sheet? The search for entertainment? The need for a kind of drug? All over … Continue reading Born On This Day — April 4, 1932
I forget who said that films are desires visualized, but for me, at least, film is the visualization of the director’s desire. But the director’s desire doesn’t appear in the film directly. It appears in all kinds of convoluted forms. … Continue reading Born On This Day — March 31, 1932
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