![]() ![]() “Spielberg isn’t a filmmaker, he’s a confectioner.”ġ8. Unfortunately, he can’t direct his way out of a paper bag. “Cameron isn’t evil, he’s not an asshole like Spielberg. Jacques Rivette on James Cameron (and Steven Spielberg): But it’s great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.”ġ5. “Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. “Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that… Spike needs to shut the hell up!” “We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and Sleep ‘n’ Eat?” What does he want to be made - an honorary black man?” But, Quentin is infatuated with that word. “I’m not against the word, and I use it, but not excessively. Spike Lee on Quentin Tarantino (and the “n-word” in his scripts): Only this time he’s got Harvey Weinstein behind him and it’s on at a million screens.”ġ0. “It’s like watching a schoolboy’s fantasy of violence and sex, which normally Quentin Tarantino would be wanking alone to in his bedroom while this mother is making his baked beans downstairs. Some of the references are flat, just pop culture.” I think it’s, like, really funny at the time I’m seeing it, but then, I don’t know, there’s a void there. I mean, about appropriating other movies, like in a blender. “Quentin Tarantino seems to be too concerned with other films. He’d have done better to give me some money.” “Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. “Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film.” His message is what he cares about these days, and, like most movie messages, it could be written on the head of a pin.” I just can’t take him very seriously as a thinker - and that’s where we seem to differ, because he does. One of the movies, Masculin, Féminin, was shot here in Sweden. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. “I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. The amount of respect that movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable.” Above all, the performances are worthless. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics’ darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness.” “Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Ingmar Bergman on Michelangelo Antonioni: He bores me he’s so solemn and humorless.”Ģ. ![]() “Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say about. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni: ![]()
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