Spielberg (2017 TV Movie)

Martin Scorsese: Self - Director

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• Self - Director : It was Cassavetes who said, "If you want to be a real filmmaker, you can't be afraid of anything or anybody." And Steven's not. But he's there with Joan Crawford... everyday and he's got to shoot and he's got to be on schedule and it's got to be good.

  [laughs] 

  Self - Director : Meaning that he has to have a vision. The shots have to have a point of view.

• Self - Director : Steven was able to walk into a room, look for a second or two, and say, "Here. Here. Move that here, Give me a 25mm here. Put it this way. Face forward. Move it. Silhouette here. Two takes. Three takes. That's enough. Thanks. Let's move on." It was amazing.

• Self - Director : His strength is really the ability to be able to tell a story, in pictures, instinctively.

• Self - Director : Once you do "Jaws" and then "Close Encounters" - well, where do you go? The bar, as they say, is set at a certain level. Then what do you do? You get yourself into shape and you jump over the bar again.

• Self - Director : [on "Empire of the Sun"]  It's in the great tradition of epic filmmaking. That sport's stadium in the end, with all the goods, all the stuff that had been stolen is there. The surrealism of that and what it makes you feel at that time and place. The sense of what the world was like, how it had fallen apart, all of civilization. And then, something even more disturbingly beautiful and that is the glow from the atom bomb. It's like a soul transcending into another plane. This is very poetic - and mystical.

• Self - Director : I don't think there's any doubt that Steven's work deals with specific themes in his life which makes him a real personal filmmaker.