Filmmaking

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 chamad

“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 -

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”

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 ...

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

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

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 h... 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

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

— Jane by Charlotte, Charlotte Gainsbourg for Jane Birkin