#filmspo by Gang Of Wizards

Fincher & Hitchcock in Hitchcock/Truffaut The Timeless Legacy of Alfred Hitchcock 

great doc. rent it or check it out on Kanopy with your library card 

“We spend our lives inventing stories, but story doesn’t actually exist. We exist and our apprehension of of a story is how we explain the meanderings that we take. So, there’s no such thing as the imperical story. It’s just what happens to people.”   —Bill Forsyth director in The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011) European New Wave

“By insisting on the importance of getting our ducks in a row early, we had come perilously close to embracing a fallacy. Making the process better, easier, and cheaper is an important aspiration, something we continually work on—but it is not the goal. Making something great is the goal.”

“Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”

—Alejandro Jodorowsky

and if you haven’t seen Jodorowsky's Dune, then FIND IT AND WATCH IT. If you’ve already seen it, WATCH IT AGAIN!

“Narrative is the poison of cinema”

“You don’t see the film, you feel seen by it.”

“Film is not just about creating characters that the audience can identify with but, more importantly, to create a film that makes the audience feel understood. You don’t see the film, you feel seen by it.”

We’re freaks. We are. We are absolutely freakishly obsessed…

“I love Gena’s acting above anything else about her. I mean… That’s hard to say, but, I really feel like she’s an equisitely talented person. And I couldn’t love her if she wasn’t a good actress. It would kill me, but I couldn’t. And I don’t think that she could really love me if I didn’t [make films]. Because we’re freaks. We are. We are absolutely freakishly obsessed…”

Ira Glass on Storytelling

1. don’t quit

3. make more stuff

2. everybody goes through a phase where they suck

4. Ira sucked after 8 years 

Killing Eve knows what’s up.

“say something”

“make the world better”

“illuminate life”

“help interpret modern life”

“Only great minds can afford a simple style”

—Toilet Paper Magazine