@@jmdi2703 You can read novels, some people like myself tend to read cinema. But I guess he meant read books on and about filmmaking and various parts of it. If you want, I can recommend some.
@@jmdi2703 Ok. Directing and Filmmaking - Making Movies and Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics. Editing- In the blink of an Eye Use of Colour in cinematography- If it's purple, someone's gonna die. Screenplay- Draft No. 4: On the writing process.
This video induced wonder. It makes me so hopeful, like I can do this, I can be like them one day. It gives me the hope to keep writing, keep filming, keep dreaming. Thank you so much for this video. These filmmakers inspire me. To me they are legends, geniuses.
okay wow.. paraphrasing the last speech by Steven Spielberg: listen to that whisper and that's what you will do for the rest of your life and from there everyone around you will benefit from what you make.. it just made me go wow like wow...
This is good. I like Akira Kurosawa's great advice to aspiring filmmakers in another video. (probably on the sidebar) It's nice to have a more sustained conversational thought.
"A movie is an art,like every other art it serves as purpose of entertainment,its mirrors and encompasses humans philosophy of life but also serve as a telescope through which we can peer through all forms of human existence in all that they are and could be just beyond their grasp........." -the commentator
The best advice is get a digital camera and start making films. Find a story and actors who will be in the film for free and do it! Start making films and if they are any good or interesting, they will find an audience. If they don’t, then your not meant to be a Filmmaker. James Cameron has the best advice! Shoot a film with Actors who volunteer and put your name on it. Directed by Fill in the Blank! Do not waste your time with Film courses or trying to sell a screenplay or getting a meeting with potential Weinstein’s. Those are very bad ideas. Begging anybody in an office with a lounge chair to become a director is also a bad idea setting you up for exploitation. Good luck! Also, try to find an original and interesting story to tell if you can. If you can’t, then it wasn’t meant to be.
Oh my god, I always had this TV in my mind😂 If you respect the TV as your personal vision and don't say "it's impossible to create this", you can create some amazing movies. All of my biggest and best projects came from that :)
Don't know if you will see this comment. But never ever give up. There is gonna be times in your life, where you think it's all over. You just can't listen to the nay sayers, never quit, never give up. Follow your dreams.
Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Orson Welles, J. J. Abrams, in that order.
Hate those "read books" advices (Tarantino says the same). I started my filmmaker's career, and I just feed myself with other movies, video games, podcasts about writing. We're a new generation (I'm 33), and we learn as much by watching a Nolan's movie than reading a vintage thriller.
@@namratakamble5465 I think what he meant was to be widely read on all sorts of subjects, so that you're world is opened up and you will become a more interesting filmmaker in the process.
If you only get inspiration from other movies then you will never do something different. Reading is integral in finding originality and inspiration whether that be from fiction or fact. Reading also strengthens your understanding of character and story. That's where film starts and ends with story. Reading a lot helps learn the music and rhythm of what story truly is and it also strengthens your minds eye and imagination. I believe this to be very important in creating art.
@@EthanTAllison Umm... One whole group of filmmakers made films just due to their sheer love of Cinema. The group was the critics of the Cahiers du Cinéma. The people, went on to be literal masters of their craft. The period was Nouvelle Vague and the people were Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Claude Chabrol, Agnès Varda, Jacques Demy, Jacques Rivette, Alain Resnais, Louis Malle, Chris Marker to name some.
***** exceptions are always there. Everything contributes in the making of a great film. Script, acting, direction, music. But before everything comes the script.
So your argument has collapsed into saying a script comes first, which of course chronologically it does. However, film is a director's medium. A great director can make a mediocre script into a great movie. A mediocre director will make a mediocre movie even if equipped with a great script. I'm a screenwriter, and I certainly think scripts are important, but they don't determine the outcome. Certainly not to the point where you can say 'it's all about a great script'.
WalterLiddy I agree with your views. Its wrong to say its all about a great script. A great director can make a great movie even with an average script. On the other hand a mediocre director can ruin a great script. Direction matters more than screenwriting in making a great movie.
You can't make a great film without good actors, everything is important. If the music sucks the film quality goes downward, everything in a film is important, acting, sound, script, directing, quality, not only script, everything is important.
I would have truly wished for this video to have existed without the fucking inspirational sound track running behind. With masters like them speaking truly about why they do this for a living, anyone who would seek an inspiration out of their words would get the damn thing. This fucking track is just simply distracting. It is even more annoying because everything about this video is just made so damn well. The cuts, etc. But the damn fucking music. Oh God!
Philosophy, history, sci-fi, poetry, novels, biographies, newspapers, street signs, folklore, op-eds, children's stories, fables... Herzog is the kind of person to never state what you should read for your own growth, but without reading, there is no link between cinema and your understanding of it. Invest yourself in culture, knowledge, and understanding. Practice methodologies; be critical of others (not condescending), especially to yourself. Forge past boundaries, create new paths, ignore the status-quo, learn from your own mistakes before others do. Truly a fascinating individual, Werner is.
