Thoughts from directors around the world.
There’s a basic structure to movies. It’s rigid and reductive. In a movie you only deal with core relationships: a protagonist, an antagonist. But in a novel you can do whatever you want. You can introduce characters that disappear for … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 28, 1950
Artists have inspired me and inspired my characters, it gives them something to live… art’s function is to help you survive, help you live. —Pedro Almodóvar Continue reading Born On This Day — September 25, 1949
Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness. The CINEMA did not start from zero. Everything to be called into question. The truth is inimitable, the false untransformable. Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 25, 1901
I think all movies are an illusion, whether they are live action or animation. And I think the best special effect that people don’t pay enough attention to is caring about the characters who are going through the set pieces. … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 24, 1957
I’ve always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It’s so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 24, 1936
Every man has his price, or a guy like me couldn’t exist. —Howard Hughes Continue reading Born On This Day — September 24, 1905
That constant tug-of-war between silly and meaningful is something I’ve always been intrigued by ever since I saw Sleeper. —Christopher Miller Continue reading Born On This Day — September 23, 1975
There was this debate between Mark Danner and Peter Sellars in Telluride, and Mark was totally pessimistic and Peter was optimistic. And I said, to make this film you have to be both. You have to be pessimistic because the … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 23, 1974
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