“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.” KindLongArtFilmArtistLeaderGenerationsPoetPainterPerformingNovelistsMakersSan FranciscoPlaywrightNurturingInnovatorsSculptorsPerforming ArtsPerforming Artist Author:Gavin Newsom
“if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets.” IfsThinkingTryingMayFilmEasyDifficultPoetCriticsPainter Book:For Keeps Source: For Keeps
“For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.” PeopleMeanFilmArtistNamesJourneyPoetMaterialsDiscoveryStartingPainterNovelistsDiscoveringSculptorsStarting OutArtifacts Author:Mike Leigh
“The poet Paul Éluard says that to understand my film version of Beauty and the Beast, you must love your dog more than your car.” FilmLove YouDogCarPoetVersionsBeast Author:Jean Cocteau
“Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.” WorldGivingKindLittlesHomeHandsBigsEyeAmericaFilmNiceTelevisionPoetMessagesShotsHorseCamerasRaisesFrankCowboyPitcherSnapsSwiss Author:Jack Kerouac
“I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we're in the next important moment of television, where it's really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th century with his serialized novels.” ThinkingWritingImportantMomentsFilmCultureNextNovelCenturyTelevisionPoetTvsGrewGrew UpSupposed To BeEpic19th CenturyDickensImportant Moments Author:Eileen Myles
“In almost every book I've written, there is a reference to a movie - legendary films, actors and actresses, and forgotten made-for-TV movies. The leaps poems make are not unlike the cuts in a film. The miniature and avant-garde prose poets have perhaps the most obvious ties to film, as a prose poem in its shape is not unlike a movie screen.” MadeBookFilmActorsCuttingWrittenPoetTvsShapesForgottenObviousActressesScreensTiesProseLeapLegendaryAvant GardeMiniaturesActors And ActressesFilm Actors Author:Denise Duhamel
“[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.” IfsThinkingMadeSometimesFilmArtistPoetGreat ArtGreat ArtistBeckettAbba Author:Anthony Minghella
“Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces on the page are evocative almost as much as where the text is. Certain poets have played with that.” SometimesFilmFormCertainBitsSpaceWhitePoetExpressionPagesRelateAbstractPoetry IsWhite Space Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him to be working class. Eventually I thought a bus was a perfect visual way to move him, to drift him through the city, to have a measured kind of routine lifestyle. And all these things kind of congealed into the film "Paterson" eventually.” WayKindLongIdeasWantedFilmMovingPerfectCitiesClassPoetLong TimeLifestyleVisualsRoutineBusWorking Class Author:Jim Jarmusch
“"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. "Oh, they're too old to make films or write books." You know what I mean?” WritingMeanBookFilmCulturePoetFilmmakerPhenomenon Author:Paul Weller
“Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.” HeartFilmChallengesPoetSkinsAbsolutesFoolishElephants Author:Mira Nair
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” EyeFilmPoetCamerasMoviePoeticFilm DirectingDirecting Film Author:Orson Welles