Filming La Dolce Vita (1960)
Samuel Fuller on the set of The Big Red One.
John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands on the set of Faces
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I would be perfectly content just to be a fly in that room.
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Anouk Aimee and Federico Fellini on-set of La Dolce Vita (1960)
Alfred Hitchock with Suzanne Pleshette and Rod Taylor on location filming The Birds.
Klaus Nomi, Christopher Parker, Jim Jarmusch
Photo by David Godlis
Happy Birthday monsieur Truffaut! You would have been 80 today.
“(Roberto) Rossellini says you shouldn’t write scripts, that only swine write scripts. The conflict in the film simply emerges from the facts. A character from a given country at a given time confronted with a character from a different country — it’s the natural conflict between them. You start from that. There’s no need to invent anything.”
— François Truffaut
Ingmar Bergman admiring one of three original Bruces from Jaws on the Universal backlot, 1975.
“Among today’s directors I’m of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh — they all have something to say, they’re passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process.” — Bergman, 2002
Photo: John Bryson
Jean-Pierre Jeunet described his experience in Hollywood (Alien Resurrection, 1997) as “a fight between heart and money”.
“Anything indirect is stronger, in many cases at least, because you leave it or you hand it over to the imagination of your audience. And I’ve always been trusting my audience to have imagination. Otherwise they should stay out of the cinema.”
— Douglas Sirk
