Thoughts from directors around the world.
The very first film, I had to fight to finish. It was baptism by fire. I learned all the lessons I needed to learn on the first film, about protecting myself and how to keep a lock on the editing-room … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, December 31, 2012
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman, and a pretty girl. —Charlie Chaplin Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, December 30, 2012
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it—if my work has anything it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don’t like that, then tough titty, don’t go … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, December 29, 2012
I think films of the future will use more and more of these “camera angles,” or, as I prefer to call them, these “dramatic angles.” They help photograph thought. —F.W. Murnau Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, December 28, 2012
There is no line between art and pornography. You can make art of anything. You can make an experimental movie with that candle or with this tape recorder. You can make a piece of art with a cat drinking milk. … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, December 27, 2012
I became a film director out of admiration, out of wanting to be like that—hero worship. I think it’s the most wonderful art in the world. —Elia Kazan Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, December 26, 2012
My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else. —Martin Scorsese Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, December 25, 2012
My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it’s a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it’s a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way. —Lars Von … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, December 24, 2012
A little twitch in our optic nerve, a shock effect: twenty-four illuminated frames a second, darkness in between, the optic nerve incapable of registering darkness. At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, December 23, 2012
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