Thoughts from directors around the world.
If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don’t want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project. —Werner Herzog on making Fitzcarraldo. Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, August 25, 2012
The camera disappeared, the screen disappeared, it was just life. —Orson Welles on the films of Vittorio De Sica Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, August 24, 2012
Good cinema is what we can believe and bad cinema is what we can’t believe. —Abbas Kiarostami Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, August 23, 2012
A director only makes one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again. —Jean Renoir Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Photography is truth, and cinema is truth 24 times a second. —Jean-Luc Godard Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Film is a disease. When it infects your bloodstream, it takes over as the number one hormone; it bosses the enzymes; directs the pineal gland; plays Iago to your psyche. As with heroin, the antidote to film is more film. … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, August 20, 2012
…no artist believes in escapism. And we secretly believe that no audience does. […] they will pay to see truth, for other reasons than her nakedness. —Michael Powell Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, August 19, 2012
A good film is when the price of the admission, the dinner and the babysitter was well worth it. —Alfred Hitchcock Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, August 18, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 