Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
Christopher LeeRead
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
Interpretation
Film creation allows for a structured and lasting artistic expression.
Michel Gondry's quote emphasizes the methodical nature of filmmaking, likening it to building something tangible and enduring. Each aspect of the film is constructed meticulously, piece by piece, giving filmmakers the power to create lasting works of art that resonate beyond their initial presentation.
In practice
This quote could be used in a film class to inspire students about the process of filmmaking.
Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.
I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.
And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.
Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.
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