I guess you could say the low point arrived on March 27, 2022, with the broadcast of the 94th Academy Awards. No, the “slap heard ’round the world” wasn’t it—though that cast a pall over the proceedings, didn’t it?—but the … Continue reading Cinema 101
You really create a film in the editing room, in the silence and night… For me paradise consists in writing the script all alone at home and then in editing it. But I hate the shoot. All this time wasted … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 20, 1917
I don’t want to make pompous, serious films; I like films that have a kind of vivacity about them. At this time of the year you think about awards and if you want to win one you think you should … Continue reading Born On This Day — October 20
So do we have to stick forever to the rules, followed a thousand times, which, year in year out, produce five good films? Can we not try something new? Can we not learn from the lessons of the past and … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, March 11, 2013
I’m not interested in realism. All my films hinge on the fantastic. I’m not a documentarian; a film is first and foremost a dream, and it’s absurd to copy life in an attempt to produce an exact re-creation of it. … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, October 21, 2012
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