This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director. – Ben Edwards
The expected vertical line of Ikiru’s narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied. – Bruce Beresford
Vittorio De Sica famously made ‘Bicycle Thieves’; that’s the film of his everybody knows. – Beeban Kidron
What I had to say was, in general, I’m not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film. – Adam Arkin
My background is from India, and I always get asked, ‘When are you going to do an Indian film, a musical or Bollywood film?’ – Asif Kapadia
I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express. – Angelina Jolie
I’m always surprised when some director says, ‘When I saw this film, that changed my life.’ I don’t have that. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
You have a schedule that you really have to stick to with TV and make sure that you are producing enough film for the network to edit through and air quickly. – Amber Stevens
Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding. – Andrzej Wajda
I think it’s insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence. – Asghar Farhadi
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions – which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. – Camille Paglia
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well. – Ben Kingsley
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. – Beau Bridges
I’m very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship. – Bahman Ghobadi