Steve James’ latest documentary, Life Itself, is a heartfelt look at one of the world’s most public and famous movie critics, Roger Ebert. A movie about a man who loved movies so much he practically lived inside them. James, whose … Continue reading LIFE ITSELF
You should bear in mind that almost all my documentaries are feature films in disguise. Because I stylize, I invent, there’s a lot of fantasy in it—not for creating a fraud, but exactly the contrary, to create a deeper form … Continue reading Born On This Day — September 5
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful. Cinema exists because there are elements of both in everything. There are elements of both in documentary. There are elements of both in … Continue reading In Their Words — Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Your film is like your children. You might want a child with certain qualities, but you are never going to get the exact specification right. The film has a privilege to live its own life and develop its own character. … Continue reading In Their Words — Friday, December 7, 2012
The kinds of landscape I try to find in my films…exist only in our dreams. For me a true landscape is not just a representation of a desert or a forest. It shows an inner state of mind, literally inner … Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Everyone who makes films has to be an athlete to a certain degree because cinema does not come from abstract academic thinking; it comes from your knees and thighs. —Werner Herzog Continue reading In Their Words — Sunday, October 28, 2012
In the fine arts, in music, literature, and cinema, it is possible to reach a deeper stratum of truth—a poetic, ecstatic truth, which is mysterious and can only be grasped with effort; one attains it through vision, style, and craft. … Continue reading In Their Words — Saturday, October 20, 2012
I would travel down to hell and wrestle a film away from the devil is it was necessary. —Werner Herzog Continue reading In Their Words — Thursday, September 27, 2012
I’m quite convinced that cooking is the only alternative to filmmaking. —Werner Herzog Continue reading In Their Words — Wednesday, September 5, 2012
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