Thoughts from directors around the world.
I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life—how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties, or just to each other. I am curious about people. So that’s … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, June 2, 2013
There’s something which you should get out from an actor, something which is under his skin, something which he himself maybe doesn’t know exactly. I hate—and I never did—to show an actor how to play a role. I don’t want … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, June 1, 2013
I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house. —Rainer Werner Fassbinder Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, May 31, 2013
I don’t believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue—if it doesn’t also arise from your body and your immediate lived experience. That’s why I always refer to ‘subjective documentary’. It seems to me that the more … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, May 30, 2013
I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons, I began to use art and cinema. —Mohsen Makhmalbaf Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Other college kids had to vandalize government buildings. All we had to do to rebel was go to movies. —Paul Schrader Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, May 28, 2013
I’ve come to like the term “poetic film.” Now there are dangers in it. Poetry is a totally different art than film. But it separates what my contemporaries and I do from the Hollywood movie, in a way that doesn’t assume that one … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, May 27, 2013
I can’t think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography. I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn’t in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, May 26, 2013
There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn’t do that. I’m not a pro. —Martin Scorsese Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, May 25, 2013
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