“My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.” “Every film I make represents a departure for me. You see, it takes so long to make a film. By the time you get to the next one you’re already a different man. You’ve grown up by one or two years.” –Roman Polanski Continue reading Born On This Day – August 18, 1933
“Hollywood has always been a cage… a cage to catch our dreams.” –John Huston Continue reading Born On This Day – August 5, 1906
“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.” –Roman Polanski Continue reading In Their Words – August 18, 2013
“I have great admiration for Fellini and Bergman, who create their own films. But I’m eclectic. I like doing one thing very different from another. I don’t even recognize a style in my work. If there is a style, it’s to adapt myself to the material consistently, and as it changes in each film, so does the style. I see each picture I make as being totally different from any other.” –John Huston Continue reading In Their Words – Monday, August 5, 2013
“To me the ideal film — which I’ve never succeeded in making — would be as though the reel were behind one’s eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes … That’s why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.” –John Huston Continue reading In Their Words – Sunday, March 17, 2013
“To me the ideal film — which I’ve never succeeded in making — would be as though the reel were behind one’s eyes and you were projecting it yourself, seeing what you wish to see. This has a great deal in common with thought processes … That’s why I think the camera is an eye as well as a mind. Everything we do with the camera has physiological and mental significance.” –John Huston Continue reading In Their Words – Monday, February 25, 2013
“I didn’t show up at the ceremony to collect any of my first three Oscars. Once I went fishing, another time there was a war on, and on another occasion, I remember, I was suddenly taken drunk.” –John Ford Continue reading In Their Words – Sunday, February 24, 2013
“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 die. That is all there is to it.” -John Huston Continue reading In Their Words – Thursday, November 1, 2012
