When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.
Interpretation
Film history often feels like it begins anew for contemporary directors, sidelining earlier influential works.
Jacques Rivette highlights how newer generations of filmmakers may disregard the rich tapestry of film history, focusing instead on the cinematic innovations and movements that emerged after 1980. This observation suggests that each generation tends to forge its own narrative, often viewing historical context through a lens that prioritizes more recent trends and styles over foundational influences.
In practice
This quote can be used in a film studies lecture to discuss the evolution of cinematic styles.
The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It's like going to get all the ingredients together, and you've got to make sure before you leave the store that you got all the ingredients. And then you take those ingredients and you can make a good cake - or not.
It was - I'm very didactic in my lyrics, but I've always been drawn to mock my own emotions, and so I write this very lyric-heavy stuff, which suits theater and comedy much more than it suits pop.
There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.
As a cartoonist, I'm a caricaturist. First you find out what somebody really looks like, and then you find out what they 'really' look like.
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
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