Filmmaking

O cinema faz-se com os outros, mas é terrivelmente solitário. Para mim, sempre foi assim, algo da ordem da doença. É por isso que grandes cineastas tratam da sua doença num filme e que, quando o vemos, ele tem um poder curativo. Alguns filmes curaram-me, e esta componente solitária do cinema é muito importante para mim.

Pedro Costa and the Revolutionary Constellation of Portuguese ...

Meshes of the Afternoon is my point of departure. I am not ashamed of it, for I think that, as a film, it stands up very well. From the point of view of my own development, I cannot help but be gently proud that that first film — that point of departure — had such relatively solid footing. This is due to two major facts: first, to the fact that I... See more

The Principle of Infinite Pains: Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers

I make films to fill my time. If I had the strength to do nothing, I would do nothing. It is only because I haven’t the strength to do nothing that I make films.

Marguerite Duras • Marguerite Duras reflects on cinema and making of India Song - e-flux

Doing a movie, by definition, is always jumping into the unknown, even if you have a full script and know all your dialogue.

In Another Country: Isabelle Huppert on finding the language of emotion in Hong Sang-soo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

“If I did not live in a time when film was accessible to me as a medium, I would have been a dancer, perhaps, or a singer. But this is a much more marvellous dance. In film, I can make the world dance!”

—Maya Deren

Maya Deren: A Study in Choreography for Camera - The Culturium -

I make movies because writing was too big a risk.

Mother Lode: Chantal Akerman's Maternal Portraiture | Current | The ...

Não me considero diretora, só queria fazer um filme sobre minha mãe, pegar uma câmera e olhá-la muito de perto, ter uma desculpa para observá-la, fotografá-la, cada detalhe dela.

Charlotte Gainsbourg: “Nunca gostei de mim mesma. Perto da minha mãe, tinha vergonha de mim”

Quando o marido de Agnes Varda, Jacques Demy, está bem doente, Agnes diz que queria ficar o mais perto possível dele e ajudá-lo o máximo que ela podia. Então, para o filme sobre a vida dele que ela dirige, ela faz essas cenas com a câmera bem próxima dele, mostrando partes do corpo dele (o cabelo, a pele, os olhos). No cinema essas cenas são

"Filming you with a camera is basically an excuse just to look at you."

— Jane by Charlotte, Charlotte Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin