Thoughts from directors around the world.
The script always serves only as a basis or springboard for the shooting to come. I invent as I need to when filming, especially as I take into account location, weather, and light, and perhaps above all as I re-think … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, January 27, 2013
Our business was not realism but surrealism. We were storytellers, fantasists. This is why we could never get on with the documentary film movement. Documentary films started with poetry and finished as prose. We storytellers started with naturalism and finished … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, January 26, 2013
In the beginning I just wanted to make movies, but with the passage of time the journey itself was no longer the goal, but what you find at the end. Now, I make films to discover something I didn’t know, very much … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, January 25, 2013
What the modern movie lacks is beauty, the beauty of the moving wind in the trees. —D.W. Griffith Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, January 24, 2013
Everyone who has had in his hands a piece of film to be edited knows by experience how neutral it remains, even though a part of a planned sequence, until it is joined with another piece, when it suddenly acquires … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Rule #5: Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, January 22, 2013
I always say Fellini inspired me. I love being in Fellini’s worlds. And Billy Wilder and Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock. To revisit those certain films and go in that world is just—It’s a world that didn’t exist and now it exists. … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, January 21, 2013
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, January 20, 2013
If we can make films that are useful as well as entertaining, marvelous. But cinema must reflect the temper of the times. We must choose material not only on the basis of whether we feel deeply, but on whether or … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, January 19, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 
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