+Josh Oliver I think his point was with film you're not trying to reproduce life verbatim. You're making a heightened reality and it's good to be aware of that fact as it may help to know it.
Whoever edited these interviews, and placed Ben Wheatly before Christopher Nolan deserves all the high fives! Burst out laughing over Super 8 Stories :D
I strongly aspire to be a filmmaker one day. These comments were very reassuring because I have felt the same insecurities. Thank you very much for sharing this!
Scorsese just capped that off so perfectly at the end, what with the earnest and straightforward way he just looks into the camera. 'The fantasy is what we're doing now, right here in this room. With these lights and cameras and mirrors. Something else is existing there, I don't know what.'
I Like how they ended him because he's one of my favorites! John Carpenter should have been in this as well cause he's another one!!!!!!📼📼📼📺📺📺📹📹📹🎥🎥🎥📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬
I saw this Video a few months ago, one quote struck me, but I couldn't remember who said it and I didn't remember the video name . Now I found a video that I new was in the related section a few weeks ago and after so many sessions I finally found this video again. David Cronenberg: ''Using film to explore the human condition.''
+ibsprintin Yeah, and not just by name (not saying your naming them just cuz of their fame) but because Nicolas is extremely passionate about his work and is a pleassure to hear him talk and PT Anderson is like the god of inspiration for filmmaking... BOTH INCREDIBLE
You guys are dicks. There's a serious under representation of female directors at all, not even to mention hyper-famous directors like Tarantino or Spielberg. Katherine Bigalow needs some more invites to director sessions like these.
Ti My it does since it creates a societal standard/stereotype that X gender/race/ethnicity/group can only apply to this occupation, potentially missing out on some talents due to missed signalling. If there was no pioneer, then no one will follow. It occurs with race and gender all the time as history has shown.
C.E. Olson, the issue is that there aren't any good female directors aside from Lynne Ramsay. Seriously, I can't think of a SINGLE great female director.
I like what Ridley said about screenplays. It would make sense that no screenplay is up to par with what he wants. Because you have a vision and the writer has a vision. And you definitely can't see what the writer sees. So all you can do is simply say that there is a story there. Then you make it what it needs to be for your film. What Scorsese said was cool. He is right. There is magic in whatever you film because we are trying to create something different. Also Tarantino is a god.
they left the best for last, scorcese is my favorite director and quentin tarantino is too, cant decide which is better, fuck it they're both my favorite
I get that the dude loves cinema, but in all honesty....his films are trash. I respect his love of film, but he has done nothing worthwhile. Supposedly Tarantino is doing a horror movie next....I really hope he keeps Roth out of it.
I'm late to this but I think the Hostel films are worthwhile. I can't speak to anything else he's done (The Green Inferno especially appears to be totally abysmal) but I came across the Hostel movies the same time I was going through the phase of exploring all sorts of the grotesque/exploitative horror films that the Saw movies inspired, and I have to say the balance of humor and pitch black dread is certainly something to aspire to. I don't think that's an easy balance to achieve, and it's one that Tarantino built his career on. When I watch the Hostel movies I see through the eye of a filmmaker who understands how to utilize an inherent sadism to plot beats in stages as early as writing, and as wannabes we have to appreciate that. Plus, you're really telling me that Cabin Fever is a "trash" film? That movie blasts up and through the roof.
I know how seclusion he is, but I really wish Terrence Malick could of made an exception and done an interview for this video. I've always wanted to hear what he has to say about filmmaking.
the only director that does his own projects and makes a film that he wants to see as an audience as well as a filmmaker is Tarantino... a genuine writer/ director, most directors use someone elses creativity and then compromise that vision for the studio, Tarantino is the only balls to the wall guy who does what he wants 100% no bullshit... doesn't matter if you like it or you don't he won't compromise his vision, that's why he is unique and stands out...
Amazing video, really nice to get all of the director's thoughts and opinions. I think I found Scorsese's advice to be particularly helpful in the overall of what making films really is.
I know he's one of the greatest directors ever with a huge portfolio of mgreat works but I simply can't get out of my head how closely Christopher Nolan resembles Tim Nice but Dim from Harry Enfield days.
Lots of greats here. . . and then Tarantino, whose film-making is to cinema what collage is to art. He's made a career out of cherry-picking bits and pieces of other peoples work, pastiching and gluing them together and then filling his films with characters who all talk like Quentin Tarantino. But thumbs up for the rest. And Peter Mullan's beard.
ohthepeppers Well, of course his works are never really innovative and forward-looking. But that's exactly the what he is aiming for. He loves old movies that he grew up with and he wants see them again in big screen. So he takes what he likes, improves, and mashes them with modern concepts. And I think there's nothing wrong with it. Since his movies been a really big part of film history, no one can say that he is not influential and persistant.
ohthepeppers Tarantino himself says that he steals from every movie ever made. No homage bullshit. No tributes. And at this point, what hasn't already been in another movie years or decades ago? Everything is stealing from something else nowadays.
ohthepeppers He said himself that he steals so many things that it creates something entirely new, which is absolutely true. He took a hundred different things from movies to put in Kill Bill, yet it entirely stands on its own as an original creation.
That was a lot of hairy men, mainly white. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed most of these people's visions, but damn Hollywood give others a chance maybe?
These people paved their own paths, as they've told you in this video. Hollywood is not a big selection machine...A lot of directors raise money for their own films, and start up their own production companies from the ground up.
nelson kaboots the majority of people who try to become directors are white men. That means a vast majority of directors will be white men. Still today, that's true.
James Cameron, when given an opportunity to talk about the magic of cinema to inspire young people, is the only one to use the term "marketplace." lolol if you're focused on making money, you're not going to have a good time as a ~filmmaker~ in this world
Love how this could have been shot on a point and shoot that was able to lock focus, then again you've got 4:4:4 compression (no pixel binning) but still it's the lighting that makes this interview appealing, and what makes fun of the current "pits and holes" of the creatives in today (low res image vs the stylistic concerns of emerging motion photographic artists). To top it all off the comment section could be a ratings system for best determining popularity of director's style. Make sure you look at comments that were before 10/9/15 if you want to gain a useful opinion, as people like me after this date will read this comment and most likely try to throw things off balance by voting for the null.
We need to seperate greed from art. It pollutes something that would otherwise be beautiful. Quality entertainment saves lives, heals wounds and opens minds. So many young artists get caught up in this mentality of "make something good and then i'll have the money, the friends, the success" They never figured out who they were. Even the greatest directors are still caught in a balancing act between creativity and narcissism. Nurture your narcissism, feel it, let it grow into altruism.
director's i love because they show the perspectives through the placement of where people are and how best to capture that moment.. the cameramen that have learned the different lenses or filters for a certain look, to know when and where to zoom in or zoom out and at what speed to do so .. what angle to be at to catch the images they need.. these are all things I love about the movie makers who can allow that to be known and then applied in other aspects of life.. when looking at a situation is it from this angle or that angle.. what might be the filter that this person is perceiving information.. what is their own angle on the situation.. this is in part what I learn when I watch movies. That's why I say thank you for sharing your own talents. There is a lot of collective experience within a movie. If only the medical profession who diagnose or try to diagnose people could have a similar understanding of the enormity within an individual who may just need a creative outlet to express themselves and use whatever they are going through as a positive even if at times negative thoughts or feelings because someone, somewhere just may relate or even be able to offer the soothing words of hope. This is what movies are capable of doing on a much broader scale. Reaching potentially hundreds of thousands of people, who just might understand, even if only in part.
Maybe women should go into the film industry if they want more representation in interviews. Don't just make movies, make GOOD movies. Bunch of armchair activists screaming for change but not helping in the slightest.
Why are practically all the great artists & writers & directors & composers men? Seriously...look at top 10 greatest lists for any creative (or even scientific) geniuses and all you see are representatives from the masculine gender.
A Bug Why stop there? List as many female directors as there are in this clip that have made films that have become classics. Gender equality is about equal opportunity, not equal outcome.
