You must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.
- Jean-Pierre Melville
Filmmaking Wisdom from Andrei Tarkovsky
In cinema, it is necessary not to explain, but to act upon the viewer’s feelings, and the emotion which is awoken provokes thought.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Filmmaking Wisdom from Robert Bresson
A film is the typical kind of creation that claims a style. It needs an author, a writing…What the director has in sight, is an effect to produce or a series of effects. If he is conscientious, his preliminary work will consist precisely of going back from the effect to the cause. Starting from what he wants to obtain, the emotion of the audience, he looks for the best combinations to create that emotion.
- Robert Bresson