March 8, 2012
"Cinema IS technology and no other art-form so wholly relies on technology for both its construction and reception. Kubrick certainly understood this and the precision, artistry and visual richness of his films can be seen as stemming directly from his deep knowledge of cinema as a technical process. Kubrick was a director never at the mercy of the technology or ignorance of it. And the results are on the screen, camera movement by gloriously exposed and lit camera movement."

— Mike Jones, 5 Lesson from Stanley Kubrick (via blimpsarecool)

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1:23am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yHes6Zs
(Notes: 4)
  
Filed under: stanley kubrick directing director screen directing technology tech cinema movies 
February 24, 2012
"You can’t say as much as you can in writing, but you can say what you say with great conviction."

— Robert Flaherty, Grammar of The Film Language, p4

6:37am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yGxsbHD
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February 19, 2012
strangewood: Sellers and Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove

strangewood:

Sellers and Kubrick on the set of Dr. Strangelove

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8:12am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yGflk9u
(Notes: 3,251)
  
February 8, 2012
"More and more with experience, I’m understanding that director really is director — directing the energies of others, rather than so much creating or imposing."

— Alexander Payne

(Source: digitalcontentproducer.com)

9:53pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yG78VR6
(Notes: 75)
  
Filed under: alexander payne sideways directing director screen directing energy impos impose creativity film filmmaking 
February 6, 2012
"What I did find interesting in the reality of what occurred was the banality and ordinariness of the world where it took place and the fact that this violence came out of that landscape. You’re right, reality on screen has a certain rhythm to it that can be quite sparse and monotonous. I guess I flirted with that style through Snowtown, but at the same time there are very strong dramatic points. There are quite heightened events that occur and I was telling it through a particular point of view, which was the Jamie Vlassakis character. So there was a blending of melodrama and raw reality."

—

Justin Kurzel

(Source: blogs.crikey.com.au)

10:36pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yG0moIK
(Notes: 1)
  
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February 1, 2012
"Being an auteur is what we all dreamed of being, as far [back] as the films of the late ‘50s and ‘60s, when the idea of the auteur filmmaker arrived on the planet. And people kept using that term, and they do with my movies because I suppose they are very individual and they give me all the credit, so they say I’m an auteur. And I say no, the reality is I’m a ‘fil-teur.’ I know what I’m trying to make but I have a lot of people who are around me who are my friends and don’t take orders and don’t listen to me, but who have individual ideas. And when they come up with a good idea, if it’s one that fits what I’m trying to do, I use it. So the end film is a collaboration of a lot of people, and I’m the filter who decides what goes in and what stays out."

— Terry Gilliam

(Source: scribblejunkies.blogspot.com.au)

7:01am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yFi_I98
(Notes: 9)
  
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December 4, 2011
anepigamicspirit: Woody Allen on his audience. “I never write down to them. I always assume that they’re all as smart as I am … if not smarter.”

anepigamicspirit:

Woody Allen on his audience. “I never write down to them. I always assume that they’re all as smart as I am … if not smarter.”

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9:13am  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yCoCLqg
(Notes: 205)
  
November 23, 2011
"Cinematographic film where images, like the words in a dictionary, only have power and value through their position and relation."

— ~ Robert Bresson (via a-bittersweet-life)

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6:26pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yCKJpPu
(Notes: 47)
  
October 29, 2011
To me, the perfect film is as though it were unwinding behind your eyes, and your eyes were projecting it themselves, so that you were seeing what you wished to see. Film is like thought. It’s the closest to thought process of any art. - John Huston, 1973

To me, the perfect film is as though it were unwinding behind your eyes, and your eyes were projecting it themselves, so that you were seeing what you wished to see. Film is like thought. It’s the closest to thought process of any art. - John Huston, 1973

(Source: philms, via mrgregfrancis)

6:48pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yBGkB9g
(Notes: 77)
  
October 11, 2011
"I shoot my films chronologically because it gives me a way to see the movie unfold in front of me in its purest form. It gives me a way to change things. It also gives the actors a little pressure, because there’s no safe haven, anything can go. When I edit the movie the first thing me and Matt do is cut the film into inconsistent, non-chronological storytelling. A completely incoherent structure, just to see what it feels like to turn everything on its head."

— Nicholas Winding Refn

(Source: filmmakermagazine.com)

6:18pm  |   URL: http://tmblr.co/ZZjC0yAZQw3w
(Notes: 46)
  
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