When I finish a film, I want to forget it. I never like to repeat myself. Maybe, when I am dead, they will find certain consistencies in the style of my films, but I never want one film to look like another.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for creative originality and a rejection of repetition in filmmaking.
Otto Preminger emphasizes the importance of artistic evolution and individuality in his work as a filmmaker. He believes that each film should stand alone as a unique piece of art, separate from his previous works. This desire for distinctiveness illustrates a commitment to creativity and the avoidance of formulaic approaches, suggesting that true artistry requires the freedom to explore new ideas without being tied down by past successes or stylistic consistencies.
In practice
During a film festival speech about innovation in cinema.
A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
Elemental Music is never just music. It's bound up with movement, dance and speech, and so it is a form of music in which one must participate, in which one is involved not as a listener bust as a co-performer.
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch, except that we get this sort of catharsis every six months or so, and we go and be absolutely someone else.
Because you have things like 'American Idol' and you've got radio stations that play music made entirely by computers, it's easy to forget there are bands with actual people playing actual instruments that rock.
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