#filmmaker quotes

Stanley Kubrick: “If you really want to communicate something, even if it’s just an emotion or an attitude, let alone an idea, the least effective and least enjoyable way is directly. It only goes in about an inch. But if you can get people to the point where they have to think a moment what it is you’re getting at, and then discover it, the thrill of discovery goes right through the heart.” (on the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey)

Andrei Tarkovsky: “The only manner in which a creative idea should enter the awareness of the audience is via the trust the creator has in his audience. A dialogue in which audience and creator are equal partners has to be developed. There is no other approach…One doesn’t need to explain in film, but rather to directly affect the feelings of the audience.” (on the set of Stalker)

Martin Scorsese: “Every director of note, he or she who has something to say, who can mount a picture beautifully, mostly have to take a lot of risks, and in so doing change the whole way in which films are made. They change the path. They are the pathfinders.”