“Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.” DreamFilmLanguageDirectorsReflectionCapture Author:Ingmar Bergman
“Screenwriting involves an often un-personal process. Co-writers, directors, producers, everyone has a say in what you put on a page, and stories are constantly changing according to budget, actors, and commercial needs. Films are a collaborative process and are also inherently narrative and structured, so you are always working within very tight parameters. Short fiction unleashes a more intimate voice and a passion for language. I believe short narratives can have the same amount of danger and drama as any action film.” NeedsBelieveStoriesActionFilmPassionActorsLanguageI BelieveProcessVoiceFictionDangerAmountDramaDirectorsPagesProducersNarrativeBudgetsIntimateScreenwritingParametersAction FilmsAlways Working Author:Chiara Barzini
“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.” KnowsGivingKindGuyReadingLanguageProcessTermLinesVisionWonderfulDirectorsPerformancesPressureScriptsIntenseCommandCinemaVisualsComprehensiveLightingUnder PressureCameraman Author:Edward Norton
“Sometimes, with directors, you have to take what they say and translate it in your head, into something that makes sense to you, because you're speaking two different languages.” TwoDifferentSometimesLanguageDirectorsMake SenseTranslateDifferent Languages Author:Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.” FirstsDifferentUseFilmThreeLanguageDirectorsFranceCinema Author:Agnes Varda
“If I would want to have a huge audience, I would make American movies, not French movies, because there is a limit of course with French language. If I prefer to shoot in my own language, it is to play with my language, to play in my Paris, and I have complete freedom in France. It's so amazing. If American directors could imagine how free I am, they would have asked for political asylum immediately.” IfsWantPlayPoliticalCoursesLanguageMy OwnAudienceImagineHugeDirectorsLimitsFranceParisAsylumsAmerican MovieComplete FreedomFrench LanguageFrench Movies Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“Every film had its own grammar. And it's your job as a director to basically figure out a language to tell a story.” StoriesJobsFilmLanguageFiguresDirectorsGrammar Author:Darren Aronofsky
“The only way I know as a director is to figure out what the film is about. And out of the theme and the sense of what the film is about, all those decisions start to make sense. But to find that truth within it, you have to limit your possibilities and limit your choices. That's where this visual language grows out of.” KnowsWayFilmChoicesLanguageGrowsDecisionFiguresPossibilityDirectorsLimitsMake SenseThemeVisuals Author:Darren Aronofsky
“The foreign-language Oscar is something that doesn't go to the producer or the director; it goes to the country.” CountryLanguageDirectorsProducersOscarsForeign Language Author:Deniz Gamze Erguven
“There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use more colorful language and they all communicate differently. But they all have love and care in common. They are all artists. And they have voices that I believe shine through within their films. To add to that, as a director myself I have learned so much from all three. I would like to thank them for that.” BelieveDifferentUseCareFilmArtistThreeLanguageI BelieveVoiceCommonDirectorsPressureAddShiningCommunicateI Have LearnedColorfulLove And CareCalmer Author:E.J. Bonilla
“With actors and directors, it's a conversation that you have. You have to learn each other's language and learn how to communicate with each other effectively. It's really nice when you can have that communication on a level where they walk up to you and you can see by the expression on their face what they want. You don't even have to talk, it just like, "Got it!" And, you know what they want before they even ask for it.” KnowsWantFacesActorsAsksLanguageWalksLevelsNiceExpressionCommunicationDirectorsConversationCommunicateUp To YouReally Nice Author:Ashton Kutcher
“If anyone has the opportunity to work with that woman, jump at it. She is the most generous, most giving director I have ever worked with in my entire life. She is classy. She speaks a dozen difference languages.” IfsGivingOpportunitySpeakLanguageDifferencesDirectorsGenerousDozen Author:Tituss Burgess