Bruno Dumont Quotes

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Cinema is an art form.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

We're used to a story in modern terms as an information delivery device. Certainly on television and even with the studio films, there's really only one note that you get, and that's clarity. And people will sacrifice everything for clarity. They'll sacrifice the joke. They'll sacrifice the moment, or the romance.

Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.

I feel like with a movie you know your whole journey, and even though little minutiae might change, you're able to get a better idea of where you're going, whereas TV is engaging a different side of your brain.

There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.

I think as storytelling has changed, you know, it's kind of turned into kind of hyper-reality movies.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

Television became defensible - and, frankly, worshipped - because the shows started to be so carefully structured, so attentive to language, and so visually interesting that they suddenly caught people's eye.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

Film is a very intimate medium.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

Films don't always tell a story; some films can achieve effect just by being razzle-dazzle or rock n' roll. That's part of the fare that's out there. And that's okay. For me, I place more value on a story.