Thoughts from directors around the world.
If you’ll ever listen to some people who are talking, especially in a scene of any excitement, they all talk at the same time. All it needs is a little extra work on the dialog. You put a few words … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, May 24, 2013
I don’t care about stories. I never did. Every story is the same. We have no new stories. We’re just repeating the same ones. I really don’t think, when you do a movie that you have to think about the … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, May 23, 2013
Of all the things I’ve done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It’s the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator. —Laurence Olivier Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, May 22, 2013
I am often asked if there is anything special I do to make my films understood by foreigners. I reply that I am making my films as a Japanese as honestly as I can. So these films are understood by … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write “War and Peace” in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, May 20, 2013
The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure—the costly, exacting mistress. —Ingmar Bergman Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, May 19, 2013
At a seminar with film students in the 1970s, Capra was asked if there was still a way to make movies about the kinds of values and ideals found in the Capra films. Well, if there isn’t,” he said, “we might as well give up. Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, May 18, 2013
I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography was all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, May 17, 2013
It was only when I passed 40, that I understood the human truths I want to express in my films. —Kenji Mizoguchi Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, May 16, 2013
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