Thoughts from directors around the world.
The great innovators have always been fearless . . . I have fallen off haystacks, out of trees, over cliffs. I have been nearly drowned, shot and hanged. I have been in countless car crashes without getting a scratch. I … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, April 27, 2013
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less. —Douglas Sirk Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, April 26, 2013
I film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can’t. My attitude is always let it keep rolling. —Terrence Malick Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, April 25, 2013
In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera serves the actor. —Richard Donner Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act. —Frank Borzage Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, April 23, 2013
You see the world much better through a camera. —Louis Malle Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, April 22, 2013
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. —Stanley Kubrick Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, April 21, 2013
Cinema is identical to life, because each one of us has a virtual and invisible camera which follows us from when we’re born to when we die. In reality cinema is an infinite film sequence-shot. Each individual film interrupts and … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, April 20, 2013
I see it as my duty to stimulate reflection on what is essentially human and eternal in each individual soul, and which all too often a person will pass by, even though his fate lies in his hands. He is … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, April 19, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 
You must be logged in to post a comment.