The Principle of Infinite Pains: Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers
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The Principle of Infinite Pains: Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers
I have been studying this work for the past thirteen years with them and consider it the root of everything I do. It is the way I fine-tune my attention to hold more, to expand my capacity to hold more grief, more news, more information, more joy.
In the studio, we practiced saying yes—not passively, but actively—yes to complexity, to contradiction,
... See moretry as hard as possible to find the intent of what you imagine, the thing that seems to be floating around here [points above head]. Without this, you’ll never be able to make a film. When you do think of this—whether we call it your thoughts, ideas, philosophy, or even your feelings—in the midst of this thing that will be your foundation, you will
... See moreHayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996
Game in the Sand, which was more of a proper film than Herakles, but actually only a few people have seen it. I was careful to take it out of circulation almost immediately after finishing it, though at the time I did show it to friends. It’s the one film I will never publicise in my lifetime; I might even destroy the negative before I die.
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
And that’s what I do. That’s it. And if I could just muster up the energy, God willing, to make a couple more, one more maybe, and that’s it, OK? That’s as far as I got. You keep going until you can’t. But what I mean is that you gotta rip it out of your skull and your guts. To find out what the hell you really – what do you really feel should be s... See more
Ours is an economically oriented age. In earlier times, world-view was more important. Today, nobody can exist without considering economics: we are concerned with economic form. Also because the need for rational design necessarily follows the previous overemphasis on emotion or historical forms. (Because, like clothes, forms also wear out.)
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