Michelangelo Antonioni Quotes

So this was the big secret historians keep to themselves: historical research is wildly seductive and fun. There's a thrill in the process of digging, then piecing together details like a puzzle.

I believe in research. Each movie at Pixar involves research with college professors or taking trips to learn as much as we can about a particular subject matter.

Making a movie is so hard, you'd better make movies about something you really know about. And even more, it's really good to make movies about things you need to figure out for yourself, so you're driven the whole way through. It's going to make things more crucial for you.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

I wrote 'Aadukalam' keeping Dhanush in mind. As an actor, he delivers exactly what I need and sometimes more.

A writer's brain is like a magician's hat. If you're going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first.

That's interesting to hear you say that because watching it [the Waitress] for the first time at Sundance was fascinating - it was so different from the experience of making it.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Nobody loves me. No, everybody wanted me to do this one by myself, and I wanted to do it by myself. So, this is sorta like my first solo album. I didn't pull any tricks out of my hat, and just went with the natural flow of the film.

I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning.

I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.

I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.

If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

I don't think I have ever created an entire fiction piece or followed a historical piece and made that into a sermon.

From film to film, I realize my strengths and my weakness, and I realize how much better I get. I learn the lingo, I ask questions and I'm on set trying to figure out which shots they're going to use. For me, it's exploring the art. It's not just making a movie.

When I stand before a canvas, I never know what I'll do, and I am the first one surprised at what comes out.

Nobody had his [Ed Wood's] style. That's something I try to do in my films. You have your own kind of cryptic messages in there - cryptic things that most people wouldn't understand but are important to you. Things that kind of keep you going through the process.

I rummage around in artistic things from the past. If you don't understand the context, they wouldn't make any sense. I rummage around in conceptual ideas of the future, but if you don't know the source of the thinking, [it] wouldn't make any sense.

It is only when memory is filtered through imagination that the films we make will have real depth.

Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too far' thing, the great thing about film art is that you can go too far, and with multiple takes nobody has to see it.

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.