Quotes
“Perhaps the future of cinema is in the hands of a few youngsters…”
“Perhaps the future of cinema is in the hands of a few youngsters who’ll make films with the little money in their pockets without shackling themselves to an industrial mindset.”
–Robert Bresson
“I love editing…”
“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
“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
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