“It's a mistake and misconception to think that one has to state everything clearly and simply for the audience to be able to follow the character, and this is what is bringing American cinema down from its position in the classic golden period. There's this misapprehension that the audience is not smart.” ThinkingStatesCharacterAbleMistakeAudiencePositionPeriodsSmartGoldenCinemaClassicMisconception Author:Asghar Farhadi
“I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.” LooksI CanTwoValuesOpinionEmotionalPeriodsAuthorityElementsWeightFoundationClassicColourIntensityDistrustRevoltExtravagance Author:H. P. Lovecraft
“To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.” LittlesMadeFilmFunKnownPeriodsRelationStudiosCinemaThings To DoClassicItalianWorthwhileLike SomethingEvokeDoing YouFun Things Author:Wim Wenders
“I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.” CountryWould BeBeautifulHouseDarknessPiecesTvsPeriodsQuietRadioClockClassicCandleCostumesHaunted HousesClock Ticking Author:Conor McPherson