“I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of filmmaking. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.”
–Stanley Kubrick
“With a good script a good director can produce…”
“With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this.”
–Akira Kurosawa
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
In 1987, I discovered the heavy metal band Metallica. I was living in Saudi Arabia, of all places, when my musical world was rocked by Master of Puppets. An American friend who had gone to the US over Christmas break lent me the tape. Although there were many music stores in Jeddah, where I lived, their selection was limited to mostly mainstream pop and Top 40s rock; you couldn’t wander into a store and easily find fresh or offbeat…
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“Film as Dream, film as music…”
“Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.”
–Ingmar Bergman, The Magic Lantern
