May 2012
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April 2012
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Well, Fellini… there is always Fellini.
– Louis Malle
when it comes i’m truly starving and it hurts i eat 11 pills
Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films — I even eat them!
– Lucio Fulci
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
A 24-inch waist.
Lauren Bacall
“You like these films, but you can’t imagine how often they represent only fifty percent of what I wanted to do. You have no idea how I had to fight to achieve even that fifty percent.”
nicholas ray
“Please fence me in baby
the world’s too big out here
and I don’t like it without you.”
—Telegram from Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall
“Dramatic stories should be thrown out. They have nothing whatsoever to do with cinema. It seems to me that when one tries to do something dramatic with film, one is like a man who tries to hammer with a saw. Film would have been marvelous if there hadn’t been dramatic art to get in the way.”
—Robert Bresson
(excerpted from “The Question: Interview with Robert Bresson by Jean-Luc Godard...
“And I know I must go on doing this dance on hot bricks till I die.”
—Virginia Woolf, diary entry, 1st of March 1937
love ain’t no losin game
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“When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn’t explain. What should he explain anyhow ? He is a spectator, capable of staging his visions in the most unwieldy but, in a way, the most willing of media. All my life I have hammered on the doors of the rooms in which he moves so...
amywinehousedream:
“She never took it seriously just how inspired I was by her.”
—Adele about Amy Winehouse
rollin my eyes..
“Scratch a cinematographer & invariably you will find a creature of odd habit & uncertain habitat - an extrovert when grinding out film & and an introvert when without a camera; an individual with the soul of a poet & the mien of a slave driver.”
Earl L. Clark
“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it’s one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.”
—Brian De Palma