Filmmaking 101, Vol. IV

Wilder on the set of Double Indemnity

with Barbara Stanwyck

"A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard." - Billy Wilder

Wilder was one of the great filmmakers of all time (the noir classic Double Indemnity is one of my favourite films), probably because he clearly understood exactly what it took to be a director.

Paul Kimball

Filmmaking 101, Vol. II

"Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity." - Edward Dmytryk

Thought du jour - 6 August 2011

"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it." - John Huston