It seems that, no matter what is happening to me in my personal life, I am always thinking about my work without even knowing it. The phenomenon resembles some kind of karma. In fact, my having become a film director, … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Kate Hannah (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is a typical kind of person. She has a sordid past that she would prefer not to think about, a present that she isn’t fond of, and a future as hazy as a Sunday morning … Continue reading SMASHED
A film is—or should be—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. —Stanley Kubrick Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, November 12, 2012
A picture must not be the work only of an author or of actors and technicians; it must be also the work of the audience. The audience makes the picture, as well as the authors; and it seems to be … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, November 11, 2012
One thing is certain, time and space play no role at all in the construction of a film, the cinema is unaware of them; a scene can carry you into another world, another age. One simply tries to capture, in … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, November 10, 2012
When I make a film I’m always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There’s no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, November 9, 2012
I’m still very attracted to fiction films. It must be a virus, I have in my blood. I often say so, but it never ceases to amaze me: you take some images, you stick them together, and it all starts … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, November 8, 2012
I state unapologetic that this is a black film, and everyone’s invited, but I’m a black woman and I’m making a film about a black woman, the lens through which we are creating this world is black. And that doesn’t mean that … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The Sessions is based on the real-life story of Mark O’Brien, a poet who suffered from polio at the age of six. Confined primarily to living and working in an iron lung, Mark, with an excellent sense of humor, managed to … Continue reading THE SESSIONS
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