"When I was making these damned pictures, I never knew about film noir. If you had asked me about it then, I probably would have pointed to something like Bill Wellman's The Ox Bow Incident, the best Western I ever … Continue reading.
"I think my cinema is minimalist because so is my gaze: I'm very interested in people. As a child, I was always interested in observing the behaviour of others. Somehow that's something that has recently connected with what I'm interested … Continue reading.
"I always suspend logic for emotion. If it feels real, or it feels like what I'm going for, we should abandon reality a little bit and go for that. I'm not a documentarian. We're not trying to shoot things for … Continue reading.
"After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, "Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I … Continue reading.
"I wanted color, like camera movement, to be another thing that feels true to the character’s head space, and brings you into their world."Trey Edward-Schults Links: Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Google Play Music | Google Podcasts | LibSyn | … Continue reading.
"I'm interested in the way major events don't necessarily announce themselves as major events. They're often little things - the drip, drip of life that changes people or affects people."Noah Baumbach Links: Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Google Play Music … Continue reading.
"I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.”Martin Scorsese Links: Apple Podcasts | Castbox | Google Play Music | Google Podcasts | LibSyn | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube On Episode 54 of the Podcast Michael & … Continue reading.
"Be sparse and never do anything more. My theory about the text in the script would be that you’re sitting in this theater and watching a movie with a blind person. Then you are describing what they see on the … Continue reading.
"Cinemascope has become synonymous with 'epic', and absolutely if you're shooting armies and certain kinds of vast landscapes, you do want that panoramic canvas to work on. But if you look at art history there's not a whole lot of … Continue reading.
"Always keep absorbing art and looking at paintings and reading books and watching movies in other languages, just getting to know the world at hand and the world of the past. It's important to keep absorbing the world and keep … Continue reading.
