The Filmmaker Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
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The Filmmaker Says - Jamie Thompson Stern
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PREFACE
For me, the most exciting part about the movie business is watching dreams become realities. Whether it’s the words on a page, the sketch of a set design, or the storyboard of an action scene, seeing those inchoate thoughts coming magically to life is always magnificent. That process is what the filmmakers in this volume are so passionate about. They want to create, to innovate… and to entertain, delight, horrify, or perplex.
Filmmakers love to talk about making movies almost as much as they love (or, in some cases, claim to hate) making them. The voices in The Filmmaker Says hold forth on such topics as auteur theory, the importance of audience, the creative process, the value of a good story, and the business of show. For all the many movies that have ever been made, there are just as many fervent opinions on what really matters about them. You will see in these pages that filmmakers aren’t a particularly humble or retiring bunch. Jean-Luc Godard announces that cinema is truth
just as vigorously as Brian De Palma proclaims that film lies.
The goal of this compendium is to create dialogues—some direct, and some more subtle—between these points of view.
Directors, screenwriters, producers, cinematographers, studio heads, actors, and critics all get to have their say here. The challenge of choosing what quotations to include was pleasurably complicated by the fact that there are so many witty, garrulous geniuses (Quentin Tarantino, I’m looking at you) whose words have been carefully archived in printed and recorded interviews. Believe me, there’s no shortage of material. There is much brilliant commentary out there that didn’t find its way into these pages, and I urge you to continue the search. You’ll probably also be inspired, as I was, to watch—or rewatch—a lot of old movies.
While compiling this volume, I was struck by the parallels between the process of creating and editing a book and the process of making a film. Editing—on paper or in the movies— is a method of manipulating reality by choosing discrete bits of information, then juxtaposing and recombining them to create a new reality. By editing the sequence of the quotes herein as carefully as a sequence of shots