Different filmmakers do it different ways. My way was to make something for cheap. It’s a good deal for people to give me $3 million for a movie. So they don’t have a lot of requirements. If I was looking … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, July 24, 2013
I always like to think of the audience when I am directing. Because I am the audience. —Steven Spielberg Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, July 23, 2013
When screenwriting, be prepared to drop your pants and show your dirty laundry. If you can’t do that, better find yourself something more polite. —Paul Schrader Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, July 22, 2013
I have nothing to do with the filming community in Budapest. They don’t like me, because I don’t make conventional films. I can’t talk with them about films, because I live and think differently than them. They are film makers … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, July 21, 2013
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps would have never been seen. —Robert Bresson Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, July 20, 2013
Am I a cult director? Yeah, I love all that. I want to join the cult of the $100- to $200-million grossers and still make an artistic picture. —Samuel Fuller Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, July 19, 2013
In the early morning hours of New Year’s Day 2009, 22-year-old Oscar Grant was pulled off a Bay Area Rapid Transit Train at Fruitvale Station. A struggle ensued, and BART Officer Johannes Mehserle handcuffed Grant, and while he was face … Continue reading FRUITVALE STATION
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. —Billy Wilder Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, July 18, 2013
Hollywood is the reason I make the films I do. Because I hate it. And I would never go there or waste my time watching their films because… well, I am a lousy film-maker, this I admit. But I refuse … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, July 17, 2013
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