SUMMER MOVIES; On Filming a Gonzo Vision: A Gonzo Dialogue (Published 1998)
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SUMMER MOVIES; On Filming a Gonzo Vision: A Gonzo Dialogue (Published 1998)
David Lynch on the limitations of language:
“Cinema is a language. It can say things—big, abstract things. And I love that about it. I’m not always good with words. Some people are poets and have a beautiful way of saying things with words. But cinema is its own language. And with it you can say so many things, because you’ve got time and sequen... See more
What’s funny about this is that at the time some theorists tried to rationalize what was going on. Some even claimed that we were in a new age, one of “limited animation,” where too much emphasis on making drawings move only hindered story development. They started saying that use of the tome-e, still images employed for effect, was a “new form of
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Another thing that’s very important in filmmaking, something we pay strict attention to at Pixar, is pacing. Pacing is the timing of shot after shot after shot after shot. I’m always thinking about the movies being made in Hollywood. They all have a tendency to make things extremely fast-paced. I don’t know why this is. Maybe it’s the influence of
... See moreHayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996
“When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it’s almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it’s not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it’s not go... See more