I love the camera a lot more than you think--all the time. But if you don't see it, that's a great compliment, because audiences are not supposed to see the camera move. You want them only to be involved with the characters on the screen. Frank Capra in a 1973 interview with Richard Glatzer

Charlotte Rampling: “I need to be able to study characters through film. That’s what I do for a living”

A leading lady and supporting actress for five decades now, British actress Charlotte Rampling (b. 1946), also a […]

The U.S. box office of 1977: The receipts of all the hit films, released 40 years ago

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Josef von Stroheim: “My father [Erich von Stroheim] only pretended to be very difficult to handle”

Almost a century ago, the silent screen’s most mythical ‘cinema artist,’ as he considered himself, began his Hollywood […]

Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne: “A film is basically the result of the shooting process”

What would you do when two awesome filmkers such as Jean-Pierre Dardenne (b. 1951) and Luc Dardenne (b. […]

Samuel Jouy: “Filmmakers are like painters, musicians, or writers. I hope to become all three of them”

You can call me old-fashioned, but when it comes to boxing movies, “The Set-Up” (1949) has always been […]

"The French Connection" [1971] was turned down twice by literally every studio in town. Then Richard D. Zanuck, who was running 20th Century Fox, said to me, 'Look, I've got a million and a half bucks tucked away in a drawer here. If you can do this picture for that, go ahead.' Film director William Friedkin