I wish you had included some comments on Gallo, one of the biggest self indulgent hacks working in film today (which is a stretch, because now he’s not even going to release his films to the public anymore.)

The moral of the story: there’s a reason filmmakers aren’t all film scholars. A lot of them don’t know what they’re talking about. (See: the quotes about Godard, Welles, Antonioni, etc.)

Also, a lot of them are total pricks.

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@Peter – I think the idea is that Gallo is so completely irrelevant that none of these other filmmakers would waste the breath to insult him. That’s how I’d feel in their shoes, anyway.

I bet there are a lot more bad comments out there about Michael Bay.

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@Peter- I think most filmmakers choose not to engage with him, because he’s clearly such an insane douche. Roger Ebert did, though; when Ebert called his movie “The Brown Bunny” the worst film to ever screen at Cannes, Gallo called him a “fat pig” (I sense a theme). Ebert responded “Although I am fat, one day I will be thin, but Mr. Gallo will still have been the director of The Brown Bunny.” Also: ” I had a colonoscopy once, and they let me watch it on TV. It was more entertaining than The Brown Bunny.”

Game, set, match.

Spielberg’s response to Wim Wenders criticisms of Jurassic Park is a favorite:
“Wim Wenders? The Spike Lee of German cinema?”

I’ve always had an attitude of awe and reverence toward film directors. Then I met a woman who’s interviewed directors for 20+ years and doesn’t have anything nice to say about them. She’s told me story after story about film makers behaving like belligerent children, unable to speak in sentences. I still appreciate what must be an incredibly demanding craft. And, of course, I can appreciate an artist regardless of what kind of person they are.

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Vincent Gallo’s films are (still) surprisingly undervalued – great mood, odd humour, great performances – and his put downs are ripe, hateful, unforgettable. A true star.

I’m actually astonished that nobody is ripping on Uwe Boll… His movies are absolute trash.

@MD That’s because it’s filmmaker-on-filmmaker put-downs, and and as a filmmaker Uwe Boll is a hell of a boxer.

Wow that Kevin Smith to PTA quote…The fucking irony.

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I despise Vincent Gallo. Such a self-centered boil with no real talent or sense of interesting style or worth.

Ironically, Uwe Boll is probably the only director in the world who ISN’T in a position to slam Michael Bay.

The David Gordon Green comment to Smith is pretty hilarious considering the last few flicks he’s been making.

David Gordan Green, You made Your Highness. You have no right to say anything about Kevin Smith

^^^Maybe that’s true, but Smith has even less a right to say anything about PTA. (Though I think his comeback to Burton is the best of these.)

… Gilliam had some sage words about Spielberg, but has been more affectionate towards him of late… Kenneth Anger is sadly absent from this list – he had some corkers!

the hell? smiths comeback to Burton is fuckin funny but what the hell is this between him and PTA’s Magnolia? shit smith. look at the irony, he’s the same fuck who wants to sell his $20 red state film to big distributors for maximum “Oscar chances” rele? PTA lost his dad and was trying to prove to everyone that boogie nights and hard eight weren’t a fluke and decided to push out 3 films (2 of them masterpieces) in a fucking row. Look at him he’s hot shit while smith blows. and PTA is the one who’s over self induldgent. honestly he’s underrated. magnolia had a lot of themes but one was big: accepting death. six feet under was like that too and both are soo fuckin underrated it’s strange. anyways I love this list. “I’m not a fucking retard like Michael Bay” hahhahah oh! I do have an opinion on people giving bay too much shit but I’m too tired

@Andreas
That’s right, Andreas, these film makers don’t know anything about film. For the record, they’re 100% correct about Godard and Welles. Ugh. Rivette is far too kind to Kubrick, and I don’t see anyone throwing insults at Uwe Boll so why waste breath on Tarantino?

What about Tarantino’s response to Spike Lee, that went something along the lines of- ‘He’s just upset because no-one goes to his films anymore’.

Brilliant!

You missed Tarantino’s rejoinder to Spike Lee: “He’d have to stand on a chair to kick my ass.”

Also, for the record, Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies are akin to watching a high-functioning autistic’s desperate attempt to mimick typical human behavior. And Cox is 100% correct about Spielberg.

Am surprised M.Night has only one harsh critic !

The man who directed Your Highness has nothing on Kevin Smith.

I have never and will never understand the adoration for Kevin Smith so this made my day:

David Gordon Green on Kevin Smith:
“He kind of created a Special Olympics for film. They just kind of lowered the standard. I’m sure their parents are proud; it’s just nothing I care to buy a ticket for.”

Did gallo say #23 before or after he appeared in goodfellas?

Gordon Green and Smith are both sellouts. if they both stuck to their earlier work I’d have no problem with what either of them say, but now pretty much everything they say is invalid. Especially after something ‘Cop Out’ or ‘Your Highness.’ Also Smith shouldn’t even mention P.T.A, who is superior in every way possible.

By the way, anyone who thinks Kubrick is anything less than sensational has some sort of mental disorder or chemical imbalance.

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Hm, has anyone noticed there are no female film directors doing any mudslinging on this list? I’m sure it ain’t cos female directors are all sweetness and light. Shame on you Flavorwire – go talk to the outrageously tiny minority of women out there who somehow manage to fight tooth and nail to get to the top in the industry and ask them why they can’t be bothered to say unpleasant things about their overinflated colleagues.

David Gordon Green has no room to talk bad to anyone. Your highness? Pineapple express? And I saw the sitter last night. It just wasn’t good…I’m glad I didn’t have to pay

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To be fair, Ebert and Gallo buried the hatchet, and when Gallo released a shorter version of The Brown Bunny, Ebert reviewed it as if he had never seen the original, and gave it three stars.

@punchdrunkfool
PTA said his “trilogy” (Boogie Nights/Magnolia/There Will Be Blood) was about family.

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Tarantino should be cited for all his stealing, or ahem “homages”…he he

He is the greatest fraud to cinema.

He didn’t openly admit to “homaging” until he was called out for after his first 2 movies. Reservoir Dogs is basically a remake of City on Fire!!!!

Tarantino is Hollywood’s biggest plagiarist, period.

@Alex Hall
I resent that, Alex. I guess I just wasn’t as enamored by Kubrick’s inability to comprehend humanity in the slightest as you were. Tarkovsky’s a man who approaches material intelligently and draws emotions out of it. Kubrick gets the filmic technique right, but there’s no substance. He’s nothing compared to Andrei.

Just livin’ up to my name.

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@AlwaysRight

I could be wrong but, isn’t ‘Solaris’ hugely inspired by ’2001?’ I respect both Kubrick and Tarkovsky very much, but I think Kubrick’s body of work is just unmatchable. Maybe Kurosawa or Bergman could compare, but Tarkovsky is just not Kubrick to me.

Who the fuck does Uwe Boll think he is. I haven’t seen bigger pieces of shit in his movies since well his last movie

“Solaris” is one long endless daydream about nothing. Tarkovsky is a popped pimple on Kubrick’s butt.

Okay, I’ve been put in my place. I’ve never even heard of a bunch of these guys. Who are David Cronenberg, David Gordon Green, Harmony Korine, Jean-Luc Godard, Kevin Smith, Michael Bay, Michelangelo Antonioni, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tyler Perry, and Vincent Gallo?

Vincent Gallo’s insults aimed at Scorsese and Coppola are very odd considereing he’s acted in movies by both of them. Guy must love burning bridges I suppose…All this tells us is that pretty much every director ever is a self-concious cunt.

I only wish they included when these quotes were from, that would make a lot of them a lot more interesting

Here is my favorite of all time and I can’t believe it was not included:
Paul W.S. Anderson:
“Don’t get me started on Citizen Kane. It took me five sittings to get through that so-called classic. It’s all talk, talk, talk. When you sit down to a Paul W.S. Anderson film, I guarantee you will not be bored like that.”

what about all the comments about the no talent hack uwe boll hmmm? oh wait we can’t say anything about him or he’ll beat us up! WTF is this 5th grade Recess? lol

Uwe Boll is only a producer who doesn’t want to pay a director.

Something that struck me was the word ‘thinker’ being conflated with ‘director.’ Those were the days. That were never happen now.

Most overrated director of all time? My vote goes for windy David Lean, who brought forth one long boring “epic” after another. His movies are so stilted emotionally it’s as if they are just huge historical dioramas with wax figures for people. Critics and directors fall to their feet to pay homage to his grand study in tedium: “Lawrence of Arabia,” which should have been titled “A four-hour documentary about sand.”

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Oh – this was sooo good especially everything within the realm of Godard, Truffaut, Bergman and poor Antonioni getting beat up. His films are slower but they make you actually FEEL a certain way, feel the dislocation, disconnection and that’s what I think his genius lies.
Anyway on SPIKE LEE: you guys should have also put in the context of what Spike Lee was saying to Clint Eastwood which was Spike felt there was no real representation of a the presence of Black soldiers in the two movies he did Letters to Iwo Jima etc… Spike Lee has a habit of just speaking out about things but also overall – Where do we get out of defense mode and just say – you know what, that’s true. We should take a little more responsibility in representing history correctly… So I’m not sure about the mention of Clint Eastwood without the context of what the issue was but clearly it can be said that Spike will speak out to both a black Director (Tyler Perry) and white Director (Clint Eastwood) when he has a problem – so he’s not discriminating when it comes to speaking out LOL!

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@ Uwe Boll: Yes… yes, you are.

Godard’s reaction to Truffaut’s brain tumor: “That’s what you get for reading so many bad books.” (“Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at Seventy,” by Colin MacCabe, page 318)

Spike Lee? I’ve gone to sleep through three of his flicks… Zzzzzz zzzzz, snort snort… Wadda waste of $$$!!!!

Werner Herzog on Abel Ferrara:
“I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is. But let him fight the windmills… I’ve never seen a film by him. I have no idea who he is. Is he Italian? Is he French? Who is he?”

To be fair to Herzog, this was in response to Ferrara going ape over Herzog naming a film ‘Bad Lieutenant,’ much like Ferrara’s film of the same name.

This was so funny that I stole… er, quoted… ah, I mean, I linked to it.

http://www.movingpictureblog.com/2011/08/francois-truffaut-disses-michelangelo.html

If you’re going to insult a female director, insult her DIRECTION, not her sex life which is none of your fucking business. 2011 and we’re still dragging women through the mud for having sex.

well, now, alt.movies kubrick is full of mutant machine martians; doesn’t make them or that Nazareth Guy less than sensationally hilarious.

Billy Wilder in 1979 after a screening of Otto Preminger’s film The Human Factor – (I’m paraphrasing):
“You know, people say Otto goes over budget, can’t work with actors and shoots over schedule. But what people don’t realize is that Otto happens to be a very bad director.”

One thing I noticed is no there isn’t anything against Lynch and Renoir, and the one comment praised Bunuel. Lynch does what he does, and Renoir is awesome, and to end it, Bunuel is the greatest director of all time.

Regarding Spike Le complaining about the lack of black soldiers in Eastwood’s WW2 films – that’s because there wouldn’t have been many (if any), unless one of the all-black (except for the officers) units was present. The Army was segregated during that war – the two biggest things blacks were permitted to do were the Tuskegee Airmen and driving on the Red Ball Express.

There is a serious mistake about that Orson Welles quote on Godard. It isn’t a particularly harsh quote at all!!! In the original interview, Welles states that he considers Godard one of the most important film-makers in the world(it’s in THIS IS ORSON WELLES) but that he has some reservations which is where the quote above comes from. Welles is harsher on other film-makers like Hitchcock.

I could not agree more with the hate on Jean-Luc Godard.

Thankfully no comment on Michael Mann… I’m quite very much into Heat right now :).

Dang, Gallo sounds like a frickin d1ck !

Noone insults Martin Scorsese, creator of the psychologically complex masterpieces “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull”, and expects forgiveness! Chain up Vincent Gallo and make him suck everyone’s cock!

Most filmmakers just let their work speak for itself rather than engage in classless insults with one another. I very rarely hear Spielberg, Bay and Scorsese diss other filmmakers personally in public, but yet they and their films are well known by the moviegoing public.

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Were Gallo’s comments about Coppola made after starring in TETRO for the director?

Last one from Uwe Boll about Bay …first thing they don’t belong here…second the statement is as idiotic as these both dimwits can get…its hilarious…third,thank heavens Boll has chosen only Bay,Boll knows is his only match…!!

I’m really shocked at Ingmar Bergman’s appraisal of Orson Welles. I would have thought that one of the world’s greatest filmmakers would have recognized another great one. To say that “Citizen Kane” is empty and that the performances in it are worthless is sheer stupidity and obtuseness. I suppose the only filmmaker who can get great performances out of his actors is Mr. Bergman.

And anyone who thinks “Lawrence of Arabia” and “The Bridge on the River Kwai” are stilted must regard Michael Bay’s movies as masterpieces.

The majority of the “directors” (Boll is on the list, after all) beaking off have no right to be slamming any director, let alone some of the names up here. The lack of self-awareness is staggering! Gallo especially needs to shut the f*ck up. Seriously, he isn’t responsible for anything remotely worth seeing, and yet has the gall to slam Scorcese? Please. Go back to film school, and only speak when you have something to say, kid.

Although I have to agree that while I find Kubrick’s movies technically brilliant, I have always found them to be emotionally cold. Sometimes the movie calls for the tone and his movies then are genius (Dr. Strangelove comes to mind). But with the exception of Paths to Glory, I think the criticism is valid.

Also agree that P.T. Anderson is a self-important windbag who makes self-important movies that don’t say nearly as much as he thinks they do. Of course, coming from Smith, that may be a bit hypocritical, but it doesn’t make it less true.

I like Tarantino, but I recognize what he is, so I can’t really complain about many of the comments here. I just find his films stylistically fantastic, and I’m usually a fan of the genre he’s sending up (ripping off, some would say, but I think he just loves those kinds of movies and wants to make what he wants to make).

Can we start criticizing fanboys too?

Gene in L.A who says:
““Solaris” is one long endless daydream about nothing. Tarkovsky is a popped pimple on Kubrick’s butt.”

Shoud choke on his mother’s dildo. You fucking idiot, I pity you for being brainwashed by new American cinema which has rendered your capacity to appreciate any movie longer than 1 hour and 50 minutes completely obsolete.
And I am a Kubrick fan but….Tarkovsky is quite possibly the greatest film-maker to have ever lived.
Go, get an education/

Sounds like a WHOLE LOT of jealousy here from some filmmakers. Especially from some of the french directors and others, but what can you say? Notice that guys like Scorcese, Spielberg, and Cameron don’t need to slam other directors because they do just fine on their own.

You missed one of the best. Alan Parker called James Ivory’s movies “the Laura Ashley school of filmmaking” to which Merchant replied, “That comment will outlast any of his films”.

Haters gon hate. I like most of these guys. Except Gallo, but maybe just because Buffalo 66 reminds me of my ex. Moving on.

Yeah and say what you want about Mr. Bay, he makes explosions look like ballet, fuckin’ unbelievable. Suuure the movies are bad but, it isn’t a sin to enjoy both fine cuisine AND fast food.

Some time in the 1990′s (maybe when “Natural Born Killers” came out), I could have sworn that Tarantino made some quote about the obviousness of Oliver Stone’s directing style along the lines of ‘If even one person in the audience doesn’t get it, Stone considers himself a failure’. I’ve scoured the Internet for this quote and can’t find it, but I remember something like that appearing maybe in “LA Weekly”. The quote stuck with me because I love both directors and kind of knew what Tarantino was getting at but never considered that aspect of Stone’s style to be a negative.

Seriously H.Korine?, after that piece of sh*t “Mister Lonely” were do you get the nerve to insult ANYBODY. You should not only not be allowed to talk about any real directors, you should not be allowed anywhere near a film set EVER AGAIN!!!

Cronenberg should get an academy award for best quote!
Is there anyone who is a bigger fraud than M. Night Shymalayan?

Might as well include Truffaut shitting on the entire British film industry while your at it.
I also find it amusing that so many directors bash Spielberg for being lightweight yet Bergman, probably the biggest snob on here, loved his films. Just goes to show that no one’s personal tastes should be put on a pedestal, no matter how good their films are, because they’re just that: personal.

Quentin Tarantino is an amazing writing and director. Pulp Fiction redefined film for the better and permanently. Just reading this, any person who dislikes Quentin Tarantino has no idea what their talking about. Plagiarist? At this point in human history, there is not a plot that has not been already explored. It’s not so much the originality of the storyline, but how it is structured, how the characters interact, how the scenes cohere, camerawork, music etc. Quentin Tarantino is and always will be a master of writing a screenplay and directing a movie. I mean, watch the the tavern seen from Inglorious Basterds. Come one, how can you say he’s anything less than spectacular?

Later Kevin Smith met Paul Thomas Anderson when they were both going to the doctor for a check-up, and found him to be a really nice guy. I don’t know and I don’t think that changes his point of view about Magnolia, though.

Also that thing Goddard said about Truffaut’s brain tumor…that makes me glad he took a pie to the face in Cannes back in the day. I can’t believe the guy who made Bande a Part and Pierrot le Fou said that about a guy who I thought was his friend or at least, his colleague.

Although it’s a writer talking about a filmmaker, another quote mentioning is Alan Sharp’s line in NIGHT MOVES:

“I saw a Rohmer film once. It was kinda like watching paint dry.”

There’s many of these digs I agree with, especially the Gallo line about Scorsese being a ghost of what he once was as a filmmaker. That’s not to say GANGS, AVIATOR or SHUTTER are crap, they’re just not superb.

I’m really glad there’s no mention of David Lynch on this list. Of course I like many of the other people that are mentioned here as well, but he seems like nice of a person to say things like that about his peers, and most people seem to at least respect Lynch’s work for what it is. However, I am aware of a Tarantino quote criticizing TP:FWWM and saying he would never see anything else by David Lynch after that film.

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It is funny what Gallo says about Sofia Coppola. Isn’t he the guy who had to make a whole film only to finally get oral sex?

Only movie i ever stopped watching in the middle was Kevin Smiths Silent Bob and whatever,, it doesnt matter, it was garbage. His last film was Cop Out. It was so bad it was sad. Kevin Smith is perhaps the most overrated director ever. Luckily for moviegoers he is doing podcasts. Also Spike Lee is a racist and needs to go away.

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I had to look up some of these people, Harmony Korine, Alex Cox, Vincent Gallo. Jacques Rivette (who I’ve heard of, but have never seen any of his films) Harmony Korine made a film called “Gummo” which was nearly 2 hours of nothing. Nothing at all. 2 delinquent kids going around shooting cats and sleeping with a retarded girl. Vincent Gallo, I’ve never heard or seen anything he’s done. Jean-Luc Godard, I respect what he attempted to change with narratives, but the fart is he only made one film that garnered any critical acclaim. Some of these are funny, like Spike Lee’s comment on Tyler Perry, Clint Eastwood’s comment on Spike Lee, and Cronenberg’s comment on M. Night. The rest of them, just seems like they are hating on some of the most successful and established directors in the world/U.S.

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Great list, and entertaining comments! Fully agree there should be more female quotes on this list…
On Tarrantino:
Appropriation is everywhere, and it always will be. Some call it stealing, but after learning your chosen creative discipline, you learn that nothing is original – your best ideas are constructed from what has inspired you in the past. It may appear original to someone, somewhere, but your ideas don’t come from oblivion.
It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to (to quote godard). I find the best criticism of QT films come from legitimate observations on the actual films themselves, and not their referential nature as a whole. I’m a fan of Tarrantino, as I am a fan of Michael Bay, Uwe Boll (so terrible its good), Werner Herzog, and Harmony Korine … but I appreciate all of their films on their respected levels.

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I think that Bergman was self-conscious about his own movies being called boring and tedious so he accused other directors of the same. You notice that most of the filmmakers doing the insulting though are directors most people have never even heard of: Nick Broomfield, Harmony Korine, Alex Cox, Jacques Rivette etc. I only know about Vincent Gallo through his outrageousness. If I remember, he once offered on his website to impregnate fans for money.

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@Alex
Wrong on the 2001 influence (Solaris was adapted from a 1961 novel and deeply examines human psychology vs 2001′s childish take on technology) and double wrong on Kubrick’s talent. I’m chalking it up to an Amero-centric take on cinema.
Tarkovsky has done more for film than any other man. He has been the standard for nearly 40 years now, ever since Andrei Rublev and Mirror.

@Albert
You could say many things in support of Citizen Kane, none of them true, but the funniest would have to be that it has good performances. Perhaps you’ve never seen one?

@Huffy
So? Robert Bresson liked James Bond films, and though I doubt he considered them to be serious art, in no way does this personal enjoyment reduce his professional opinion on De Sica and Chaplin.

“Vincent Gallo is a twat, but quite a funny twat though” – Me.

Vincent Gallo was clearly joking when he made those 3 particular quotes. The jerk who released Gallo’s secretly recorded comic rant did so almost ten years after secretly recording Gallo. Gallo worked with Coppola long after the statements were made and word has it the two are friends and enjoyed working together. Gallo is hurtful, loose mouthed and crude sometimes but he can also be insightful, sensitive, generous and extremely honest. In years to come his work will surely hold up as some of the best and most important. I agree with Gallo regarding Spike Jones

Vincent Gallo is a funny bunny. I agree his comments seem like he was kidding around in the Howard Stern type way. Mr. Gallo has also been quoted making some extremely smart and thoughtful comments. This list was a funny read for sure.

Kubrick’s 2001 has a childish take on technology? So I guess you haven’t actually seen it, then.

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Tarantino’s a prick, Spike Lee’s a genius.
Kubrick is God, but so is Spielberg.

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no source for the quotations?

Directors on directors is one thing, with one level of vengeful pettiness. Another, perhaps more human, perspective is to ask Assistant Directors about directors. For example: Ivan Reitman is painful to be around, miserable to work for. John Landis is spoken of as if he’s a terror, but he facts are, if one knows the job, John’s a great guy. And for anyone to say James Cameron isn’t evil or a mean prick, has just not had the pleasure. That’s a real ROFLMAO.

Sorry, no edit here. “And anyone who says James Cameron isn’t evil or a mean prick, has just not had the pleasure.”

Interesting read, this. Vincent Gallo looks like and sounds like a pompous moron. His web site is a self-aggrandizing joke. He works hard making himself look like an arrogant ass. I guess that’s what he wants people to think about him. Perhaps it’s like publicity: he doesn’t care what people think about him, as long as they DO think about him.

FWIW: Michael Bay scares the crews who have the misfortune of working for him: he’s reckless and doesn’t care who falls off the Shotmaker. “Fuck ‘em: they’re just crew. I don’t want to wait. Let’s go. Let’s go! LET’S FUCKING GO!”

Most the filmmakers quoted here are, whether we agree with them or not, commenting on the work. Gallo is venting attacks on personality. Grossly unprofessional and classless. Which is of course proves everything that’s been said about him.

You completely missed one of the most withering quotes of all, Truffaut on Satyajit Ray: “I don’t want to see a movie of peasants eating with their hands.”

The Truffaut snipe at S. Ray is only withering to Truffaut, who looked like an ass saying tripe like that. I think FT got humbled when he, um, actually had to start making his own movies, almost none of which were anywhere near as amazing as Ray’s Apu films. Turns out, there _is_ accounting for taste.

And Arthur is right; the unexpurgated Orson Welles on Godard is more witty and ambivalent than harsh. In the same quote, where I read it, Welles calls Godard’s “contempt” for the conventions/mechanics of cinema “very exciting”, and there’s no reason to believe he’s being insincere about that. But didn’t Welles call Roberto Rossellini an “amateur”? That could be ambivalent/complimentary, too, though I don’t think it was meant that way. *Shrug* I would be a lot poorer for not having seen Welles’ films, but I’d probably be _better_ off not having read any of his egomaniac prattle, as charming and ironic as the brilliant bugger was. Unlike Godard, Welles’ personal flaws didn’t totally poison his body of work (and in Godard’s case, undermine the messages and political sentiments he claimed to espouse).

I wish these quotes were provided more in full; never mind context: a handful more words and they’d take on a fuller meaning entirely, and I’m just talking about the several that I’d already seen in their entirety.

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I do realize people have their own opinions but what is this accomplishing? When a director is getting bashed he or she probably never even did anything to that basher to disorve that. Yes maybe that director made a few bad movies but does that give them the all the right to act like this? Now I can see this happening if they were all in high school but thats not the case in this situation. I think they all need to understand is that what they are doing with their lives is something they love doing. Everyone of these directors is somewhat telling a story even if you agree or not. The hate needs to stop.