Thoughts from directors around the world.
I don’t make rules myself. I didn’t study enough to be able to make them. I’m too stupid. I spend my whole life making movies, so I have to enjoy it. Even at times when we had a very tight … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 24
Basically, I’m throwing out the question “When is such violence justified?” To get that question to touch the audience physically and directly—that’s what my goal is. In the experience of watching my film, I don’t want the viewer to stop … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 23
Really, if I start a work I forget food. I forget that I am a woman. I forget my dress, I only see my work. I forget because I am fascinated by my work. —Leni Riefenstahl Continue reading Born On This Day — August 22
They laughed at Columbus when he said the world was round, too. —Melvin Van Peebles What I can’t do is what I consider children’s films, infantile subject matter. The caped-crusader-type stuff is not for me…When I began making films, they … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 21
It’s imperative for me to tell everybody that this is personal, it means a lot to me. You have to impart how much it means to you in a personal way, which will bring everybody into it, and get you … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 20
Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. —Roman Polanski Continue reading In Their Words — August 18, 2013
Whenever I hear people dismiss movies as “fantasy” and make a hard distinction between film and life, I think to myself that it’s just a way of avoiding the power of cinema. Of course it’s not life—it’s the invocation of … Continue reading In Their Words — August 16, 2013
Movies are not scripts—movies are films; they’re not books, they’re not the theater. It’s a completely different discipline, it exists on its own. I would say that the beauty of it is it’s not the theater, it’s not done over … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, August 15, 2013
Originality now is rare in the cinema and it isn’t worth striving for because most work that does this is egocentric and pretentious. What is most enjoyable about the cinema is simply working with a language that is classical in … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, August 14, 2013
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