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“ 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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I love the movies
“What is important is not the way others see you,its the way you see yourself.”
Jean Luc Goddard
As much as I love the movies….I love the film makers.
On screen,movies make us live so many different lives in so many different worlds.
And off screen,the movie makers are so much like heroes in their own way.
This blog is my personal tribute to cinema and to hundreds of filmmakers all over the world.
My life has become richer because of the feelings,emotions and experiences I have gone through in the cinema halls watching hundreds of movies.And for this I am thankful to all the Goddards,Fellinis,Bergmans,Kurosawa’s,Ritwick Ghataks,Kubricks,Ozu’s;all the great film makers as well as the not so great film makers of the world.
“The important thing is to be aware one exists.For three quarters of the time during the day one forgets this truth.”
Jean Luc Goddard.
In movies one forgets one’s own existence,but that is replaced by some one else’s existence.
Life is contradiction and movies are life at 24 fps(frames per second).This blog is my personal expression of my love for films and film makers.
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