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The inner theme
“Apart from the story any movie has to tell,there is sometimes,although not always,another motif which imparts the Inner Theme- Hope, Faith , Sorrow,The Absurd, The fragility of Happiness- all the great themes of the Human Condition.
When I am ready to convey this inner story and to express its presence,I depend most often upon music for this.”
-Guilo [...]
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The human face
“Our work in films begins with the human face.The approach to the human face is without doubt the hallmark and the distinguishing quality of the film.We should realize that the best means of expression the actor has at his command is his look.The close-up,if objectively composed,perfectly directed and played, is the most forcible means at [...]
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Allow for things to happen
“People always think that I improvise my films-that something, some scene, some moment, some idea, just flies into my head, and I then and there put it in. The fact is, it’s all- intentional. I appear to be improvising only so as not to suffocate the flow of a scene. I call it “attentive [...]
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Strong moments
“I don’t write scripts I just write out the strong moments of the film.”
Goddard
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The mirror in front of us
“The cinema is the art in which man recognizes himself in the most direct way, the mirror in front of which we must have the courage to discover our souls”
Fellini
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A quest for the essential self
“Every investigation a man makes about himself, about his relations with other people and about the mystery of life is a spiritual investigation and in the true sense of the word-a religious one. I suppose that this is my philosophy. This is neo-realism as far as I am concerned, in its pure and original sense, [...]
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The rhythm of life
“The truth of our daily lives is neither mechanical, conventional nor artificial, as stories generally are, and if films are made that way, they will show it.
The rhythm of life is not made up of one steady beat, it is instead, a rhythm that is sometimes fast, sometimes slow: it remains motionless for a [...]
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Get going
“ There’s a principle I’ve learnt which is probably the most important thing any young person could learn about becoming a film director and that is to treat the project you want to do as though you’re already doing it. That really, in principle was how “Dementia 13” was made. I went and [...]
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Humanness In a Character
“ What do I mean by Character?
Well, in a word, humanness. If you don’t convey humanness, your work is worthless. This is the purpose of all art. In a film, emotion without humanness is a defect. A person who is perfect at facial expression is not necessarily able to [...]
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A world unto itself
“ Each picture with its particular environment and unique personal relationships is a world unto itself – separate and distinct. Picture makers lead dozens of lives- a life for each picture. And, by the same token, they perish a little when each picture is finished and that world comes to an end.In this repect [...]
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The potential of cinema
“In none of the traditional arts is there so great a disproportion between potential and achievement as in the cinema.A film acts directly upon the spectator presenting him with concrete people and things in the silence and darkness of the theatre; it isolates him from what we might call his normal psychic habitat.
For these reasons [...]
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The sources of inspiration
“A film for me begins with something very vague-a chance remark or a bit of conversation,a hazy but agreeable event unrelated to any particular situation.It can be a few bars of music,a shaft of light across the street.
These are split second impressions that disappear as quickly as they come,yet leave behind a mood-like pleasant dreams. It [...]
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