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Film's thought of as a director's medium because the director creates the end product that appears on the screen . . . But what does the director shoot - the telephone book?

Billy Wilder (Paris Review interview)

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An all-too-common weakness of the inept dramatist is to write a scene between two characters who are so much in agreement that there is no real conflict or cause-and-effect dramatic progression.

Alexander Mackendrick (in ‘On Film-making’)

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Happy warriors/women's day!

It's good to remember inspirational women directors, screenwriters, producers and others that work behind a camera but have a huge role in a process of making a film.

Also we need to be aware of that there is a low percentage of them working in film industry, getting nominated or winning film awards and that they definitely deserve better and more recognition. We need more of them, we need change.

Every one of them have special place in our heart and they will never be forgotten.

And at the end: females are not only future, they had a huge impact on past and they are present.

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Bresson is a genius. Here I can state it plainly — he is a genius.

Andrei Tarkovsky, Journal, 19 February 1986, Paris (via sleepydrummer)

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Jojo Rabbit (2019) dir. Taika Waititi

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Exchange of backstory? Have at least one character stoically hold back. Mutual confession easily becomes a pity party.

Pilar Alessandra / On the Page ® 200 Writing Tips (via scriptwriters-network)

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Jojo Rabbit (2019) dir. Taika Waititi

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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (2007)

Directed by David Yates

Cinematography by Sławomir Idziak

Aspect Ratio: 2.39:1

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[I]t is very bad for a writer to talk about how he writes. He writes to be read by the eye and no explanations or dissertations should be necessary.

Ernest Hemingway (Paris Review interview)

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[In a movie] the dream sequence is exposition in a ball gown.

Robert McKee (in ‘Story’)

Dark Waters (2019);

Directed by Todd Haynes; Written by Mario Correa, Matthew Michael Carnahan; DoP Edward Lanchman; With Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Bill Camp;

Dark Waters is based on Nathaniel Rich’s 2016 article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare”, published in The New York Times Magazine. Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo) is a corporate lawyer specialized in ambiental matters, that usually defends big companies in court. He’s contacted by Wilbur Tennant (Bill Camp), a farmer from Parkersburg (the city where Robert’s grandma lives and where a DuPont’s facility is located), that insists the DuPont is contaminating the local waters. After some hesitation, Robert takes the case and his investigations lead him to find out that Tennant was, indeed, right: the DuPont was poisoning not only the city but the whole Nation.

In my opinion, making a film based on a true story is always something tricky: obviously, you have to stick to the facts with no possibility to add that one scene that could turn your story completely for the better. Sometimes, it's up to the director, the screenwriter and the actors heightening the story with their performances and abilities. Todd Haynes already showed us that he knows how to direct a film with Far from Heaven (2002), I’m not here (2007) and Carol (2015), just to name his most famous movies. There isn’t a shot too much, they are perfectly calibrated, everything is at the right place. You enter the story without even noticing it and those two hours just fly by. Mark Ruffalo’s amazing acting completes the film, making Dark Waters that definitely deserves to be watched. I think this is Ruffalo's best performance: there is something that he constantly does, an expression, a grimace that looks real, that he manages to adapt perfectly to every situation he has to face.