On Filmmaking and Style
...it either wouldn't exist at all, or it wouldn't exist in anything like this form.
- Steven Soderbergh
It's not what we say
but how we say it
that matters.
- Federico Fellini
For me, cinema is sorcery,
a creative way to interact with the world in order to rearrange perception and expand consciousness...
Art is all about craftsmanship. Others can interpret craftsmanship as style if they wish.
Style is what unites memory or recollection, ideology, sentiment, nostalgia, presentiment, to the way we express all that.
...both the viewers and my own.
- Nina Menkes
Cinema is a specificity of vision. It's an approach in which everything matters...
It means that if this filmmaker didn't do it...
Through style, he gets others
to see the material
through his eyes.
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
The soul is shown through the style, which is the artist's way of giving expression to his perception of the material.
The style is important in attaching inspiration to artistic form. Through the style, the artist molds the many details that make it whole.
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style,
The most important part of your equipment is yourself:
your mobile body, your imaginative mind, and your freedom to use both.
like the outside and the inside of the human body...
...introducing something which is
the invention of the filmmaker.
- Orson Welles
I think the enemy of film is of course reality, and films are best
when they manage poetry by reducing the element of reality and...
...All that stuff is
more sensuous,
more tactile.
- Joachim Trier
The way you tell it, the way that you pace a story, the way that you choose to represent it through very particular scenes...
...the most personal thing you do as a filmmaker is where you put your camera, how you perceive things, how you see them...
Make sure you do use them.
- Maya Deren
...both go together, they can't be separated.
- Jean-Luc Godard
Be yourself. Find your style, your way; find the border and cross it, or else you may be lost or, even worse, boring.
Don't forget what you really want to say.
...a real universe into which enters an element of spectacle.
- Jean-Pierre Melville
In cinema it is necessary not to explain,
but to act upon the viewer's feelings...
You must leave the spectator free. And at the same time you must make yourself loved by him. You must make him love the way in which you render things.
That is to say: show him things in the order and the way that you love to see them and to feel them...
It is necessary to recreate a world that conforms to one's interior image and to make a system of it.
My personal universe is...
There is no recipe. The recipe is you.
- Béla Tarr
...make him feel them...while leaving him
a great freedom, while making him free.
- Robert Bresson
...and the emotion which is awoken is what provokes thought.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
presented by A-BitterSweet-Life