Thoughts from directors around the world.
When I write a script, I have the entire film in my head, so when we start shooting, I just do it. I’m more interested in the editing process, so I tend to shoot in a hurry. Maybe you don’t … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, January 18, 2013
The more Keystone comedies I make, the more convinced I become that comedy is an art, and a high one at that. If those who are inclined to scoff at me will try their hand at directing just one of … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, January 17, 2013
I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-people… You can only involve an audience with people. You can’t involve them with gimmicks, with sunsets, with hand-held cameras, zoom shots, or anything … Continue reading In Their Word — Wednesday, January 16, 2013
People tell me that I make films about reality, they’re wrong. I make films based on structures that I have thought up. —Hong Sang-soo Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, January 15, 2013
I think it’s a real privilege to make a living doing this job. It’s a great job—the best I can think of, actually. You walk into a room and say, “I’m imagining this,” and they give you millions of dollars … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, January 14, 2013
Anyone who lives, as I do, in a world of imagination must make an enormous and unnatural effort to be factual in the ordinary sense. I confess I would be a horrible witness in court because of this—and a terrible … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, January 13, 2013
When you go to a mystery film and they tie it all up at the end—to me, that’s a real letdown. In a mystery, somehow in the middle it’s all opened up, and you can go out to infinity trying … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, January 12, 2013
Give them pleasure — the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. —Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, January 11, 2013
The cinema began with a passionate relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it in the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, January 10, 2013
Michael J. Cinema 
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