“Hopefully I've done it, not in a pretentious way, but just as a cinematic mix,”
Cameron Crowe
“Hopefully I've done it, not in a pretentious way, but just as a cinematic mix, ... It is kind of a flourish. I didn't know if it would work. What I wanted it to be was authentic, the kind of music she would actually put on there. What I wouldn't want was it to be, 'Oh, that's that guy who always puts music in his movies doing a big thing with music'. I wanted it to be that girl's taste. And yeah, she would put Pride (In the Name of Love) on it. You do go for some obvious stuff when you make a mix tape because it reinvents itself.”
“It is not pretentious. It just gives you the feeling you could do it yourself.”
Michel Gondry
“So that means I want it to be deep, not in a pretentious way, but I guess I can say I am pretentious in that I pretend. I have aspirations that the movie should trigger off a lot of complex responses.”
David Cronenberg
“A load of cinematic effects that otherwise seem easy or cheap to me suddenly become difficult again... can't you hear that this is the only right way of doing it?”
Lars von Trier
“In 'Doom,' (you have) a wonderful cinematic venue; it's atmospheric and moody and scary. So you know the genre you're in, but you still have to craft a complete story.”
John Wells
“Even if it sounds pretentious, which it isn't-I've found it artistically challenging to produce a monologue that is filled with laughter and ideas. It's a tough thing to pull off, but satire is better if it has conviction behind it.”
Ben Elton
