These horrible days -- when shooting film disgusts me, when I am exhausted, powerless in the face of so many obstacles -- are part of my method of work.
Two simplicities. The bad: simplicity as starting-point, sought too soon. The good: simplicity as end-product, recompense for years of effort.
The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.
Finally, movies are an art. I believe that no combination of the highest-grossing movies would attract the attention that movies have without the work of Marcel Carne, King Vidor, Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, Carl Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, David Lean, G…
When I haven’t been able to find a musical concept that adds to the movie, I haven’t used a score. Studios hate the idea of a picture without music. It scares them. But if the first obligation of Dog Day Afternoon was to tell the audience that this event really happened, how could you justify music…
