What happens to the characters in my films is not important. I could have them do one thing, or another thing. People think that the events in a film are what the film is about. Not true. A film is … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 29, 1912
I don’t know anything about the way a film is born, nothing about the manner of it, the lying-in, the ‘big bang’, the first three minutes. Whether the images in those first three minutes are born out of their author’s … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 29
I am not a theoretician of the cinema. If you ask me what directing is, the first answer that comes into my head is that I don’t know. The second, all my opinions on the subject are in my films. … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, June 8, 2013
For me, from the moment when the first, still unformed, idea comes into my head until the projection of the rushes, the process of making a film constitutes a single piece of work. I mean that I cannot become interested … Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, March 7, 2013
The most difficult thing is to recognize an idea out of the chaos of feelings, reflections, observations, impulses that the surrounding world stirs up in us. Among thousands of possibilities, why do we isolate one idea, that one and not … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, November 2, 2012
I’m accused of being vulgar, so much the better. That proves I’m closer to life. —Billy Wilder Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, October 29, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 