Some films that we admire discourage us, how can we do any better? But they’re not the best ones, the best ones open doors. Cinema seems to start and restart with them. —François Truffaut Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, July 12, 2013
Films are created when there’s no one looking. They are invisible. What you can’t see of the Incredible and it’s the task of cinema to show you that. —Jean-Luc Godard Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, February 7, 2013
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my … Continue reading In Their Words — December 3, 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
Photography is truth, and cinema is truth 24 times a second. —Jean-Luc Godard Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 