How the masters of cinema think about art, truth, and storytelling<\/p>\n
Great film directors do more than frame images. They frame reality. Their words often reveal as much about cinema as their films do, exposing fears, obsessions, philosophies, and the quiet rules they live by while shaping stories for the world. These 25 quotes come only from directors, across eras and styles, and together they form a kind of unwritten manifesto of cinema.<\/p>\n
\u201cCinema is a matter of what\u2019s in the frame and what\u2019s out.\u201d \u201cI steal from every movie ever made.\u201d \u201cDrama is life with the dull bits cut out.\u201d \u201cCinema is not about making people dream. It\u2019s about making them wake up.\u201d \u201cA film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.\u201d \u201cThe length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t dream at night, I dream all day.\u201d \u201cMovies are a battleground.\u201d \u201cIf it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.\u201d \u201cCinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.\u201d \u201cI make films for myself. Then I figure out how to sell them.\u201d \u201cA story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.\u201d \u201cCinema is a mirror by which we often see ourselves.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m not interested in entertainment. I\u2019m interested in ideas.\u201d \u201cThe most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself.\u201d \u201cEvery film should have its own world, a logic and feel to it that expands beyond the exact image.\u201d \u201cI was always more interested in the human condition than special effects.\u201d \u201cTo make a great film you need three things: the script, the script, and the script.\u201d \u201cCinema is truth 24 times per second, and every cut is a lie.\u201d \u201cI like stories where people are forced to make difficult moral choices.\u201d \u201cA filmmaker should never be comfortable.\u201d \u201cFilm is a dream. It\u2019s a collective dream.\u201d \u201cYou can\u2019t control how people feel, but you can control the image.\u201d \u201cThe camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.\u201d \u201cCinema is about time, memory, and emotion. Everything else is decoration.\u201d How the masters of cinema think about art, truth, and storytelling Great film directors do more than frame images. They frame reality. Their words often reveal as much about cinema as their films do, exposing fears, obsessions, philosophies, and the quiet rules they live by while shaping stories for the world. These 25 quotes come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17479,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17477\/revisions\/17479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyglamour.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\u2014 Martin Scorsese<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Quentin Tarantino<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Alfred Hitchcock<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Orson Welles<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Alfred Hitchcock<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Steven Spielberg<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Jean-Luc Godard<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Stanley Kubrick<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Jean-Luc Godard<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 David Lynch<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Jean-Luc Godard<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Alejandro Jodorowsky<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Andrei Tarkovsky<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Peter Jackson<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Christopher Nolan<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Ridley Scott<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Akira Kurosawa<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Jean-Luc Godard<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Clint Eastwood<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Darren Aronofsky<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Federico Fellini<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Wong Kar-wai<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Sergei Eisenstein<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n
\u2014 Terrence Malick<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"