Thoughts from directors around the world.
I am often asked by younger filmmakers: Why do I need to look at old movies? The only response I can give them is: I still consider myself a student. Yes, I have made a number of pictures in the … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, November 25, 2012
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed. —Stanley Kubrick Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, November 24, 2012
I think that a film really only comes into existence in the cutting-room. To shoot is only to collect material, create possibilities. I try to go about it in such a way as to ensure myself as much freedom to … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, November 23, 2012
There’s a side of me that always fell for manic things, frenzied, cartoony performances. I always liked sideshows, freakshows. Jerry Lewis was a freakshow… Absolutely grotesque, awful, tasteless. I like things to be tasteless. —Terry Gilliam Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, November 22, 2012
The kinds of landscape I try to find in my films…exist only in our dreams. For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things—but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, November 20, 2012
I don’t think much of technique, or making technique a part of things. If you find a new way to catch life, nature, this could change details, but not the whole. I don’t think so much of what I do … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, November 19, 2012
I’ve always been a very serious-minded person, but people don’t know it, really, they’re always puzzled by my films, that there’s usually something going on in the film besides what you’re looking at, which is of course, the contact with the … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, November 18, 2012
I don’t really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane. Obviously, there are major differences, but I can also see great similarities between a church and a movie house. Both are places for … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, November 17, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 
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