Thoughts from directors around the world.
I’ve lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I’m glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief. —Vittorio De Sica Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, March 4, 2013
An artist, if he’s unselfish and passionate, is always a living protest. Just to open his mouth is to protest: against conformism, against what is official, public, or national, what everyone else feels comfortable with, so the moment he opens … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, March 3, 2013
I do not want to make beautiful films, I want to make useful films. —Roberto Rossellini Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, March 2, 2013
I never did much advance planning. I’d get all the people on the set before me, and when they were all there, that’s when I’d start to think and go to town. I only used one camera; I didn’t need any more … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, March 1, 2013
It’s the story that counts. —Vincente Minnelli Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, February 28, 2013
If you want to make pictures and enjoy making them, you better go out and make something that a lot of people want to see. And then they’ll turn you lose and let you make what you want. And then … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it’s all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters. —Samuel Fuller Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, February 26, 2013
To me the ideal film—which I’ve never succeeded in making—would be as though the reel were behind one’s eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, February 25, 2013
I didn’t show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk. —John Ford Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, February 24, 2013
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