Thoughts from directors around the world.
One of cinema’s greatest uses or values lies not just in its ability to capture reality, but to capture or suggest dreams. And silent films excelled from the start in fully embracing the weirdness of real-life and dream and how … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 10, 1961
I’ve never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see. —Michael Apted Continue reading Born On This Day — February 10, 1941
The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen. —King Vidor Continue reading Born On This Day — February 8, 1894
Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles. I never suspected that El Topo would be seen. All Mexico was against it, they wanted to kill me—they thought I was making a black mass! I … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 7, 1929
From 1966: I am a French filmmaker who has thirty films to shoot in the years to come: some will succeed, others not, and it’s just about all the same to me, as long as I can make them. I … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 6, 1932
I don’t believe truth is conveyed by style and presentation. I don’t think that if it was grainy and full of handheld material, it would be any more truthful. Oddly enough, people don’t want truth. They want to avoid having … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 5, 1948
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 5, 1943
My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 4, 1918
A Danish critic said to me one day, “I have the impression that there are at least six of your films that are stylistically completely different, one from the other.” That moved me, for that is something I really tried … Continue reading Born On This Day — February 3, 1889
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