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Cinema is the greatest art form of the last century BECAUSE it has had the greatest constraints.
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How you tell an idiot filmmaker: he isn’t talking about what’s actually on screen, he’s talking about follow focus’s and file formats. Another way to tell an idiot film maker: he isn’t talking about what’s on screen, but about other idiot filmmakers.
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Bresson called his actors Models. Ozu did a single line of dialog in 72 takes. They realised that acting must be obliterated. What is left is only the person who has chosen to call themselves an actor.
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Film is so hard to make that the unambitious consider it enough to have made one at all. But the demands of significant art remains, what are you saying that has never been said before, and why hasn’t it been said in this way? Only people with small penises point out that origniality is an impossible task. They’re missing the point.
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If you haven’t seen it, heard it or felt it then don’t write it, it’s certain to be second rate.
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Resolution (both camera and narrative) is the haven of the uncreative.
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Oh, you want a happy ending? Die.
Posted 6 months ago
