top of page
.png){kind=small}
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
Standard
Customized
More
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
Future
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
Space
"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
Actor
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
Being
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
Conscience
"I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules."
Time
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
Society
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
Science
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
Film
"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
Society
More
"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
Author Name
Personal Development
"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page