"Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing."

Samuel Fuller via Criterion

"There is more than one way to make movies. To me it has to be led by emotion. That’s the only thing I could trust when making a movie. Emotions serve characters’ purposes. That is their motivation. Or at least it’s my safety net. The times you just don’t know what to do, every day people are asking you hundreds of questions: what should we do about this? The that? If we can’t do this, what about that? You have to have something centered around you, and to me, that’s always emotion. I’m an emotional person; maybe I rely on it. Maybe I’m melodramatic, I don’t know."

Ang Lee - Interview Magazine

“This is science-fiction at its best”. 

Payload, a short-sci-fi epic about a family living in the shadow of a space elevator.

(Source: payloadfilm.com)

"Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it’s great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001."

Jacques Rivette on Stanley Kubrick

(Source: flavorwire.com)

"His gifts as a director are enormous. I just can’t take him very seriously as a thinker — and that’s where we seem to differ, because he does. His message is what he cares about these days, and, like most movie messages, it could be written on the head of a pin"

] Orson Welles on Jean-Luc Godard

"Scratch just a little bit beneath that surface and you’ll find the ugly truth that underpins most of Hollywood’s attempts to grapple with the Holocaust and atrocities like it. Erik is a villain not because of what he does with his anger, but because bad things happened to him. Charles is the hero because he’s lucky enough not to have been victimized. The fact is, Hollywood—pop culture in general, actually—doesn’t like victims. It’s willing to feel sorry for them, but it won’t quite accept them as heroes. We want our heroes to be strong, inviolate. Victims—those who haven’t passed through fire unscathed, or somehow worked their way back to the exact same person they were before their ordeal—are suspect, damaged goods, defiled. We’d rather believe that there’s something wrong with them for how they react to their experiences than to accept that we too might react the same way. So we consign them to villainy, and embrace as heroes those who are simply fortunate."

Asking the Wrong Questions on X-Men: First Class

"Living with a director in production is a bit of a nightmare. Gary King once joked that we should start a support group for the significant others of filmmakers called “It Never Really Gets Better.” Add to that the hell of living in the production, with all the gear all scattered around and in the way and your bed being used to shoot a sex scene at 2 a.m. after you’ve been at work all day, and it’s amazing that any relationships survive such shoots. A tip: put your significant other up in a hotel or something. It’s worth it."

Lucas McNelly, A Year Without Rent (Part 4) via FIlmmaker Magazine (via screendirection)

(via screendirection)

Shot: [Projection]

Shot 2: [Projection of Shot 1 + Projection]

Shot 3: [Projection of Shot 2 + Projection of Shot 1]

Shot 4: [Projection of Shot 3 + Projection of Shot 2 + Projection of Shot 1]

And so on and so forth.

The full length trailer for PAYLOAD — my epic short film from last year. Screening details shortly.

(Source: payloadfilm.com)

This is not my film.