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 … Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, March 17, 2013
The mark which has dominated all my work is the longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn’t lessen, but augments this love of life. —Pier Paolo Pasolini Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, March 5, 2013
I’m not bitter about Hollywood’s treatment of me, but over its treatment of D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich von Stroheim, Buster Keaton, and a hundred others. —Orson Welles Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, January 31, 2013
If I’d only stayed in the theater, I could have worked steadily, without stopping for all these years. But, having made one film, I decided that it was the best and most beautiful form that I knew and one that … Continue reading In Their Words — Monday, October 15, 2012
Michael J. Cinema 