How shall I say? Productions of movies are not always smooth, and you have to be the lion tamer of the most unexpected.
Werner Herzog
from a press junket (watch clip here)
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- academic explanations
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- Aki Kaurismäki
- Akira Kurosawa
- Alfred Hitchcock
- allowing a film to grow outside your preconceived intentions
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- assembly
- association of scenes
- audience
- auteur theory
- autobiography
- avoiding predictability
- awards
- Barbet Schroeder
- being an artist
- Carl Th. Dreyer
- casting
- casting animals
- cause and effect
- censorship
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- Christopher Doyle
- cinema as a unique artform
- cinematic storytelling
- cinematography
- cold cinema
- comedy
- commercials
- Craig McKay
- critical reaction
- dark comedy
- David Lynch
- developing style through personal perception
- dialogue
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- director's block
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- directors' signature styles
- distribution
- documentary
- Don Hertzfeld
- dramatizing ideas
- dream logic
- ecstatic truth
- editing
- emotional articulation
- emotional pornography
- emotional reaction vs. intellectual understanding
- empathy
- emulating real life
- entertainment
- Eric Rohmer
- ethnographical films
- explicitity
- f/x
- failure
- fantasy
- film as agitation of mind
- film as art
- film as dream
- film as fun
- film craft
- film school
- film theory
- film vs. digital video
- filmmaking affecting life
- films made by a collective
- financial success
- first film
- Flannery O'Connor
- fragments
- Francis Ford Coppola
- François Truffaut
- Freddie Francis
- Frederick Wiseman
- Fritz Lang
- genre films
- George A. Romero
- gestures
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- ideology
- images
- improvisation
- Ingmar Bergman
- insert shots
- intellectual cinema
- interpretating film
- intuition
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Jennifer Venditti
- Jim Jarmusch
- John Carpenter
- John Cassavetes
- John Huston
- Jonathan Demme
- juxtaposition
- Klaus Kinski
- Krzysztof Kieslowski
- Krzysztof Piesiewicz
- Lars von Trier
- learning to make films
- Lev Kuleshov
- Lindsay Anderson
- linear vs. nonlinear
- Lodge Kerrigan
- magic
- mainstream cinema
- Martin Scorsese
- meaning
- Meredith Monk
- messages in cinema
- Michael Haneke
- misc. tips
- motifs
- moving picture vs. stationary picture
- music
- music videos
- nature
- nonvisual storytelling
- on-screen violence
- Oren Peli
- Orson Welles
- pacing
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Schrader
- personal film vs. commercial film
- Peter Bogdanovich
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- plot
- poetic cinema
- point of view
- political content
- presenting rape in film
- production
- Quentin Tarantino
- realism
- rhythm
- Robert Bresson
- Roger Ebert
- Roman Polanski
- Samuel Fuller
- screenwriting
- sets
- sex scenes
- shock scares
- shooting on location
- silence
- sound
- sound design
- sound effects
- sound vs. images
- Stanley Kubrick
- Steven Soderbergh
- stories
- storyboarding
- storytelling
- style and content
- stylization
- subtlety
- suggestion
- suspense
- symbolism
- talent
- talking pictures
- the influence of personal experience
- the perfect film
- theatre
- themes
- theoreticians
- Todd Field
- torture on film
- trends
- Trent Harris
- trial and error
- using the innovations of others
- Victor Erice
- viewing films
- Vilgot Sjöman
- violence
- voice-over narration
- Werner Herzog
- why make movies?
- William Faulkner