The Dark Passenger

(Fonte: oldfilmsflicker)

pushedandfiled:

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

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Pensavo di non essere tagliato per la regia. Mi mancavano il gusto della sopraffazione tirannica, la coerenza, la pignoleria, la capacità di faticare e tante altre cose, ma soprattutto l’autorità. Tutte doti assenti nel mio temperamento. Da bambino ero un tipetto chiuso, solitario, aggredibile, vulnerabilissimo fino allo svenimento. E sono rimasto, checché ne pensi la gente, molto timido. Tutto questo come si poteva combinare con gli stivali, il megafono, l’urlata, le armi tradizionali del cinema? La regia di un film è sempre il comando sulla ciurma di Cristoforo Colombo che vuol tornare indietro.

I thought I was not cut out to be a director. I missed the taste for tyrannical domination, the coherence, the fussiness, the ability to work hard and so many other things, but most of all authority. All qualities absent in my temperament. As a child I was introverted, solitary, easy to attack, vulnerable. I remained, despite what people think, very shy. How could you combine all this with the boots, the megaphone, the shouting, the traditional weapons of film-making? Directing a film is like being Christopher Columbus, trying to command a crew that just wants to turn back.

Federico Fellini | January 20, 1920 — October 31, 1993

(Fonte: taniadoeslittle, via romanoff-bartons)

byronic:

Andrei Tarkovsky on the set of Stalker via Ow.ly - image uploaded by @Criterion (Criterion Collection)

fuckyeahdirectors:

John Carpenter on-set They Live (1988)