Thoughts from directors around the world.
I state unapologetic that this is a black film, and everyone’s invited, but I’m a black woman and I’m making a film about a black woman, the lens through which we are creating this world is black. And that doesn’t mean that … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, November 7, 2012
I need images, I need representation which deals in other means than reality. We have to use reality but get out of it. That’s what I try to do all the time. —Agnès Varda Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, November 6, 2012
I think every film I make that puts characters in jeopardy is me purging my own fears, sadly only to re-engage with them shortly after the release of the picture. I’ll never make enough films to purge them all. —Steven … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, November 5, 2012
I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it re-creates 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, November 4, 2012
We were all critics before beginning to make films, and I loved all kinds of cinema-the Russians, the Americans, the neorealists. It was the cinema that made us-or me, at least-want to make films. I knew nothing of life except … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, November 3, 2012
The most difficult thing is to recognize an idea out of the chaos of feelings, reflections, observations, impulses that the surrounding world stirs up in us. Among thousands of possibilities, why do we isolate one idea, that one and not … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, November 2, 2012
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, November 1, 2012
Since H.G. Wells, Arthur Clarke, and Ray Bradbury, they have all tried to think up frightening machines but it’s very difficult to achieve. I don’t think there is anything more frightening than a camera, a camera which is filming and … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, October 31, 2012
I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you’re making a horror film doesn’t mean you can’t make an artful … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, October 30, 2012
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