Thoughts from directors around the world.
When a filmmaker does not make films it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds himself wandering in a larger jail. The main question is: why should it be a … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, November 15, 2012
Filmmakers don’t work for posterity. We create with celluloid and chemical pigments that don’t last very long. They fade away. In 200 years there will be nothing left of our work but dust. —Louis Malle Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, November 15, 2012
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. —David Lynch Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, November 14, 2012
It seems that, no matter what is happening to me in my personal life, I am always thinking about my work without even knowing it. The phenomenon resembles some kind of karma. In fact, my having become a film director, … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, November 13, 2012
A film is—or should be—more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later. —Stanley Kubrick Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, November 12, 2012
A picture must not be the work only of an author or of actors and technicians; it must be also the work of the audience. The audience makes the picture, as well as the authors; and it seems to be … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, November 11, 2012
One thing is certain, time and space play no role at all in the construction of a film, the cinema is unaware of them; a scene can carry you into another world, another age. One simply tries to capture, in … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, November 10, 2012
When I make a film I’m always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There’s no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, November 9, 2012
I’m still very attracted to fiction films. It must be a virus, I have in my blood. I often say so, but it never ceases to amaze me: you take some images, you stick them together, and it all starts … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, November 8, 2012
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