Erland Josephson Quotes

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

Characters I've played, they used to impact my paintings, like 80 percent of the time, and especially when I was doing an action film.

I've always tried to create music the way Kubrick makes film, just kind of mimicking consciousness. He has a way of mimicking this greater power.

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to live it.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.