Actually making films has taught us a lot:It is as much trouble to make a bad films as a good one.Our most sincere film can seem phony.The films we do with our left hands may become worldwide hits.A perfectly ordinary … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, August 9, 2013
I think about a film almost continuously. I try to visualize it and I try to work out every conceivable variation of ideas which might exist with respect to the various scenes, but I have found that when you finally … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, August 8, 2013
If it were all in the script, why make the film? —Nicholas Ray Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, August 7, 2013
The Look of Love is a biopic about Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), Britain’s richest man. Matt Greenhalgh wrote the script, with the bulk of the material coming from Paul Willetts’s biography, Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond. Paul Raymond … Continue reading THE LOOK OF LOVE
Gena and I are freaks. We are. We’re absolutely freakishly obsessed with wanting to convey something that is very hard for us to express in our life. To dig deeply into the way things are, through people, is what I … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Only God Forgives is a very delicate, fragile movie. You might not think that, considering the level of graphic violence, but it is. My first viewing of this fever-dream was at the LA Film Festival in June, where a member of … Continue reading ONLY GOD FORGIVES
I have great admiration for Fellini and Bergman, who create their own films. But I’m eclectic. I like doing one thing very different from another. I don’t even recognize a style in my work. If there is a style, it’s … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, August 5, 2013
When I was a critic, I thought that a successful film had simultaneously to express an idea of the world and an idea of cinema; La Regle du Jeu and Citizen Kane corresponded to this definition perfectly. Today, I demand … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, August 4, 2013
I’ve done every job there is to do on a movie set except makeup. Wait a minute, I’ve done makeup. I’ve done every job there is to do on a movie set except hairdressing. —John Landis Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, August 3, 2013
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