GO TO >> HITCHCOCK / TRUFFAUT
“Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.”
WATCH >> Krzysztof Kieślowski on Filmmaking
“Of course everyone is right saying censorship is bad. But you can benefit from it as well. Looking at Eastern European cinema; Hungarian, Russian, Czech or Polish… You see that existence of censorship forced them to search for possibilities that they did not know about.”
LISTEN >> Interview w/ Cinematographer James Wong Howe (1974)
“I know we all love movies and I know we all love James Wong Howe.”
WATCH >> Bridge of Spies Q&A with Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese
“It’s the old story, there’s only one position for the camera, but what the hell is it?”
READ >> Ingmar Bergman’s 3 Rules for Moviegoing
Punctuality. Continuity. Willingness.
READ >> Every Single Movie That Jimmy Carter Watched at the White House
“The first movie Carter saw in the White House theater? All the President’s Men. The night after he lost his re-election campaign to Ronald Reagan he watched the 1967 film The Bandits.”
WATCH >> Charlie Kaufman on Screenwriting
“I’m a person who does this and I struggle with it. I think it was Thomas Mann that said, ‘a writer is someone for whom writing is harder than it is for other people.’ Which you know- I thought was pretty cool. And I think that’s sort of it. If you take it seriously, it’s a struggle.”
WATCH >> The $300,000 Movie Collection
“I buy them by the pound.”
WATCH >> Linklater // On Cinema & Time
“It’s the big element, isn’t it, of our medium, the manipulation of time, the perception of time, the control of time- kinda the building blocks of cinema.”
WATCH >> Making of the Shining
“Danny you gotta listen to Stanley.”