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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, a quest for the essential self, my own and other’s, along all the paths of life.”
Federico Fellini
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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 while, then at the next moment it starts spinning around. The important thing is this: that our acts, our gestures, our words are nothing more than the consequences of our own personal situation in relation to the world around us.”
Michelangelo Antonioni
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Most of us are crazy
“ I think you have to be a schizoid three different ways to be an actor. You’ve got to be three different people. You have to be a human being. Then you have to be the character you’re playing. And on top of that you’ve got to be the guy sitting out there in Row 10 watching yourself and judging yourself. That’s why most of us are crazy to start with, or go nuts once we get into it! I mean, don’t you think it’s a pretty spooky way to earn a living?”
George C. Scot
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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 told everyone I was making this big film and acted as though I was. I really had no deal. And the same with “You’re A Big Boy Now”. By laying out those few hundreds of dollars necessary to make the trips,and to rent a small office and generally saying “hey, we’re making a film, it got to be a going thing. And its easier to get a going thing than a non going thing going, obviously.”
Francis Ford Coppola
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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 express humanness. In fact, the expression of emotion often hinders the expression of humanness. Knowing how to control emotion and knowing how to express humanness with this control-that is the job of the director. ”
Ozu.
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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 it is a melancholy occupation.”
John Huston.
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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 it can stimulate him more effectively than any other form of human expression.
The bulk of current film productions seem unfortunately,to have this as its mission ,and the screens of our film houses daily parade evidence of the moral and intellectual void in which cinema is wallowing.”
Luis Bunuel
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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 is a mental state,not an actual story but one abounding in fertile associations and images.Most of all,it is a brightly coloured thread sticking out of the dark sack of the unconscious.If I begin to wind up this thread and do it carefully, a complete film will emerge.”
Ingmar Bergman
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