Legendarische citaten van de grootmeesters

Welles:

"I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act."

Lynch:

"My mother refused to give me colouring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a colouring book does is completely kill creativity."

Jean Cocteau:

“A masterpiece can never look like a masterpiece. It must be imperfect and full of mistakes, since it is the triumph of the mistakes that makes it a masterpiece.”

Werner Herzog:

“If we don’t develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.”

Fuller:

"Ninety-five per cent of films are born of frustration, of self despair, of ambition for survival, for money, for fattening bank accounts. Five per cent, maybe less, are made because a man has an idea, an idea which he must express."

Kurosawa:

"In all my films, there's three or maybe four minutes of real cinema."

Peckinpah:

"The end of a picture is always an end of a life"

Renoir:

"My dream is of a craftsman's cinema in which the author can express himself as directly as the painter in his paintings or the writer in his books."

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En daarmee is voor mij dit hele topic overbodig geworden

Bergman:

I never ask people to understand what I have made. Stravinsky once said, 'I have never understood a piece of music in my life. I always only feel.'

Making films is my justification for existing. If I start playing fast and loose with ethics, I'll lose my inherent value as a human being, everything that gives me the feeling I've a right to make films. And this is why I must never forget that each film may be my last.

I love and admire the filmmaker Tarkovsky and believe him to be one of the greatest of all time. My admiration for Fellini is limitless. But I also feel that Tarkovsky began to make Tarkovsky films and that Fellini began to make Fellini films. Yet Kurosawa has never made a Kurosawa film.

De Niro :

"One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price."

goga:

"De meesten echter lukt het niet om 1 fatsoenlijk film te maken."

Erg mooi .

In de minder serieuze hoek, maar daarom niet minder leuk:

Hitchcock:

"Television has brought murder back into the home - where it belongs."

Martin Scorsese:

"Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive."

Hitchcock:

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible

Drama is life with the dull bits left out.

Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake.

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

Cartoonists have the best casting system. If they don't like an actor, they just tear him up.

Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

Cary Grant is the only actor I ever loved in my whole life.

I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline-production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, "It's in the script"/ If he says, "But what's my motivation?", I say, "Your salary".

Actors are cattle.

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Wat is dit een geweldige uitspraak van de meester.

Billy Wilder: "The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer."

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