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Inspiring everything from pop culture earthquakes to popular revolutions, filmmakers have demonstrated an uncanny ability to move the masses. But the drama they project on screen is only half the picture. Stretching from its earliest days of two-reel silent films to the latest 3-D digital blockbusters, film history provides a cast of characters ready to spill witty bon mots, outrageous pronouncements, and heartfelt reflections. The Filmmaker Says is a colorful compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's most influential and opinionated creators of filmed entertainment. Paired like guests at the ultimate film geek dinner party, a celebrated filmmaker of today might sit next to a giant from the silent era, this raucous crew puts on a show arguing, complimenting, and disagreeing with each other about every step of the moviemaking process. A perfect gift for working filmmakers, aspiring auteurs, and avid moviegoers, The Filmmaker Says will delight anyone who has'dreamed of yelling "action" or just can't wait for the lights to go down and the curtain to go up.
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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
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