30 Filmmaker-on-Filmmaker Insults
Mr. Hole the Magnificent
“Antonioni is the only important director I have nothing good to say
about. He bores me; he’s so solemn and humorless.”
2. Ingmar Bergman on Michelangelo Antonioni:
“Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky.
Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own
tediousness.”
3. Ingmar Berman on Orson Welles:
“For me he’s just a hoax. It’s empty. It’s not interesting. It’s dead.
Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of — is all the critics’ darling,
always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore.
Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that
movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable.”
4. Ingmar Bergman on Jean-Luc Godard:
“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt
constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead.
Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a
fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies,
Masculin, Féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly
boring.”
5. Orson Welles on Jean-Luc Godard:
“His gifts as a director are enormous. I just can’t take him very
seriously as a thinker — and that’s where we seem to differ, because
he does. His message is what he cares about these days, and, like most
movie messages, it could be written on the head of a pin.”
6. Werner Herzog on Jean-Luc Godard:
“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money
when compared to a good kung-fu film.”
7. Jean-Luc Godard on Quentin Tarantino:
“Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He’d
have done better to give me some money.”
8. Harmony Korine on Quentin Tarantino:
“Quentin Tarantino seems to be too concerned with other films. I mean,
about appropriating other movies, like in a blender. I think it’s,
like, really funny at the time I’m seeing it, but then, I don’t know,
there’s a void there. Some of the references are flat, just pop
culture.”
9. Nick Broomfield on Quentin Tarantino:
“It’s like watching a schoolboy’s fantasy of violence and sex, which
normally Quentin Tarantino would be wanking alone to in his bedroom
while this mother is making his baked beans downstairs. Only this time
he’s got Harvey Weinstein behind him and it’s on at a million
screens.”
10. Spike Lee on Quentin Tarantino (and the “n-word” in his scripts):
“I’m not against the word, and I use it, but not excessively. And some
people speak that way. But, Quentin is infatuated with that word. What
does he want to be made — an honorary black man?”
11. Spike Lee on Tyler Perry:
“We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and
Sleep ‘n’ Eat?”
12. Tyler Perry on Spike Lee
“Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that… Spike needs to
shut the hell up!”
13. Clint Eastwood on Spike Lee:
“A guy like him should shut his face.”
14. Jacques Rivette on Stanley Kubrick:
“Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling
whatsoever. But it’s great when the machine films other machines, as
in 2001.”
15. Jacques Rivette on James Cameron (and Steven Spielberg):
“Cameron isn’t evil, he’s not an asshole like Spielberg. He wants to
be the new De Mille. Unfortunately, he can’t direct his way out of a
paper bag. “
16. Jean-Luc Godard on Steven Spielberg:
“I don’t know him personally. I don’t think his films are very good.”
17. Alex Cox on Steven Spielberg:
“Spielberg isn’t a filmmaker, he’s a confectioner.”
18. Tim Burton on Kevin Smith (after Smith jokingly accused Burton of
stealing the ending of Planet of the Apes from a Smith comic book):
“Anyone who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I
would especially never read anything created by Kevin Smith.”
19. Kevin Smith on Tim Burton (in response to “I would never read a
comic book”):
“Which, to me, explains fucking Batman.”
20. Kevin Smith on Paul Thomas Anderson (specifically, Magnolia):
“I’ll never watch it again, but I will keep it. I’ll keep it right on
my desk, as a constant reminder that a bloated sense of self-
importance is the most unattractive quality in a person or their
work.”
21. 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.”
22. Vincent Gallo on Spike Jonze:
“He’s the biggest fraud out there. If you bring him to a party he’s
the least interesting person at the party, he’s the person who doesn’t
know anything. He’s the person who doesn’t say anything funny,
interesting, intelligent… He’s a pig piece of shit.”
23. Vincent Gallo on Martin Scorsese:
“I wouldn’t work for Martin Scorsese for $10 million. He hasn’t made a
good film in 25 years. I would never work with an egomaniac has-been.”
24. Vincent Gallo on Sofia (and Francis Ford) Coppola:
“Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to
be a photographer she’ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a
filmmaker, she’ll fuck a filmmaker. She’s a parasite just like her
fat, pig father was.” (funny cause you had no problem starring in
Francis' last movie)
25. Vincent Gallo on Abel Ferrara:
“Abel Ferrara was on so much crack when I did The Funeral, he was
never on set. He was in my room trying to pick-pocket me.”
26. 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?”
27. David Cronenberg on M. Night Shymalan:
“I HATE that guy! Next question.”
28. Alan Parker on Peter Greenaway (specifically The Draughtsman’s
Contact):
“A load of posturing poo-poo.”
29. Ken Russell on Sir Richard Attenborough:
“Sir Richard (‘I’m-going-to-attack-the-Establishment-fifty-years-after-
it’s-dead’) Attenborough is guilty of caricature, a sense of righteous
self-satisfaction, and repetition which all undermine the impact of
the film.”
30. Uwe Boll on Michael Bay:
“I’m not a fucking retard like Michael Bay.”
Read more at ONTD: http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/61897067.html#ixzz1Usji0atg
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Sol L. Siegel
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> 7. Jean-Luc Godard on Quentin Tarantino:
> "Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He'd
> have done better to give me some money."
The smartest line in the bunch. I mean, seriously, what's the point
of publicly dashing people you might just have to deal with next
month?
- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA
nick
> "Mr. Hole the Magnificent" <classic.mr.h...@gmail.com> wrote innews:229fb24e-5511-4b94...@q5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:
>
> > 7. Jean-Luc Godard on Quentin Tarantino:
> > "Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He'd
> > have done better to give me some money."
>
> The smartest line in the bunch.
I liked the Broomfield quote on Tarantino, and Ken Russell's dig at
Richard Attenborough.
Ingmar Bergman's shot at Citizen Kane might carry more weight if he
hadn't liked Amrican Beauty so much.
Stone me
"Mr. Hole the Magnificent" <classic...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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1. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni:
20. Kevin Smith on Paul Thomas Anderson (specifically, Magnolia):
None of them have had the wit (in these instances) to put down their
target with humour.
A lot of vinegar.
Stone me.
Jim T.
<classic...@gmail.com> wrote:
>3. Ingmar Berman on Orson Welles:
>“For me he’s just a hoax. It’s empty. It’s not interesting. It’s dead.
>Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of — is all the critics’ darling,
>always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it’s a total bore.
>Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that
>movie’s got is absolutely unbelievable.”
>
>4. Ingmar Bergman on Jean-Luc Godard:
>“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt
>constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead.
>Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a
>fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies,
>Masculin, Féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly
>boring.”
>
>6. Werner Herzog on Jean-Luc Godard:
>“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money
>when compared to a good kung-fu film.”
My already high opinions of Bergman and Herzog just went up even more.
moviePig
> "Mr. Hole the Magnificent" <classic.mr.h...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:229fb24e-5511-4b94...@q5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
...but, I'm ashamed to admit, invigorating. (Or maybe
invinegarating.) Reminds us that genius, however one may regard the
very concept, can't be bottled and sold without a warning label.
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Stone me
"moviePig" <pwal...@moviepig.com> wrote in message
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On Aug 13, 10:33 am, "Stone me" <sun...@boulevard.cpm> wrote:
> "Mr. Hole the Magnificent" <classic.mr.h...@gmail.com> wrote in
> messagenews:229fb24e-5511-4b94...@q5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com...
> 1. Francois Truffaut on Michelangelo Antonioni:
> 30. Uwe Boll on Michael Bay
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> None of them have had the wit (in these instances) to put down their
> target with humour.
> A lot of vinegar.
...but, I'm ashamed to admit, invigorating. (Or maybe
invinegarating.) Reminds us that genius, however one may regard the
very concept, can't be bottled and sold without a warning label.
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YOUR taste at work...
http://www.moviepig.com
What might be better is a posting of humorous put-downs.
I know, we've had some before, but there have to be enough for a second
showing.
Stone me.
moviePig
> "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote in message
Well, many of these are posthumorous...
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David Matthews
I liked Michael Winner's self inflicted insult when an angry Burt
Lancaster telephoned him to complain about the publicity for _LAWMAN_.
In the initial press releases the movie was advertised as Burt Lancaster
in Michael Winner's _LAWMAN_. Lancaster said that it was in his
contract that his name was to be the only artist's name above the title.
Winner said "But Burt your name IS the only artist's above the title,
I'm not an artist and I have the reviews to prove it."
Dave M
William
> Winner said "But Burt your name IS the only artist's above the title,
> I'm not an artist and I have the reviews to prove it."
>
Typical of Winner. Never had an original idea. The line was a lot
funnier when Victor Mature used it 40 or so years ago.
William
moviePig
> >22. Vincent Gallo on Spike Jonze:
> > He s the biggest fraud out there. If you bring him to a party he s
> >the least interesting person at the party, he s the person who doesn t
> >know anything. He s the person who doesn t say anything funny,
> >interesting, intelligent He s a pig piece of shit.
>
> >23. Vincent Gallo on Martin Scorsese:
> > I wouldn t work for Martin Scorsese for $10 million. He hasn t made a
> >good film in 25 years. I would never work with an egomaniac has-been.
>
> >24. Vincent Gallo on Sofia (and Francis Ford) Coppola:
> > Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to
> >be a photographer she ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a
> >filmmaker, she ll fuck a filmmaker. She s a parasite just like her
> >fat, pig father was. (funny cause you had no problem starring in
> >Francis' last movie)
>
> >25. Vincent Gallo on Abel Ferrara:
> > Abel Ferrara was on so much crack when I did The Funeral, he was
> >never on set. He was in my room trying to pick-pocket me.
>
> made that miserable piece of drek The Brown Bunny just so he could get
> sucked off by Chloe Sevigny at the end.
She was his erstwhile girlfriend, which casts some doubt on that
motive...
MFalc1
was in AMERICAN FILM magazine in the 70's:
"That's not the real Orson Welles. The real Welles will [direct] one
last film which will make us all look bad."
Mark L. Falconer
http://www.youtube.com/terrymcca
http://www.poetry-arts-confidential.blogspot.com
Obveeus
"moviePig" <pwal...@moviepig.com> wrote:
>On Aug 13, 9:51 pm, denni...@dennism3.invalid (Dennis M) wrote:
>> >24. Vincent Gallo on Sofia (and Francis Ford) Coppola:
>> > Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to
>> >be a photographer she ll fuck a photographer. If she wants to be a
>> >filmmaker, she ll fuck a filmmaker. She s a parasite just like her
>> >fat, pig father was. (funny cause you had no problem starring in
>> >Francis' last movie)
>>
>> made that miserable piece of drek The Brown Bunny just so he could get
>> sucked off by Chloe Sevigny at the end.
>
>She was his erstwhile girlfriend, which casts some doubt on that
>motive...
Perhaps his motive was only to be able to prove it to others?
nick
> In article
> <b55eeb9a-ccd4-48f1-b2a9-28a90397d...@o26g2000vbi.googlegroups.com>,
> fell for it.
Buffalo '66 was good though. The Brown Bunny wasn't bad on a stoned
hippie glacially paced level. I haven't seen any of Gallo's other
directorial works and apparently he's decided we're not good enough to
see these works.
http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/the-director-formerly-known-as-vincent-gallo/
David Matthews
Always liked Mature. He was actually a far better actor than he
pretended to be and he could take a joke, he does a wicked parody of an
over the hill actor (himself) in _After the Fox_.
Dave M
William
>
> Always liked Mature. He was actually a far better actor than he
> pretended to be and he could take a joke, he does a wicked parody of an
> over the hill actor (himself) in _After the Fox_.
>
"Mature was famously self-deprecatory about his acting skills. Once,
after being rejected for membership in a country club because he was
an actor, he cracked, "I'm not an actor — and I've got sixty-four
films to prove it!"[8] He was quoted in 1968 on his acting career:
"Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an
actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics."[9]"
Just wanted to clear that up.
William
SSS DDD
Sol L. Siegel
3251.bay.webtv.net:
> Or the pot calling the kettle black, x 30
Not bad, not bad. d;>)
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tomcervo
Kind of useless without context, which I am not asking for, unless
there's some in the source. Otherwise it's just show business
bitchery, and there are far better examples than these.
"Uwe Boll on Michael Bay" Worst porno EVER.
Melanie Sands
> "Mr. Hole the Magnificent" <classic.mr.h...@gmail.com> wrote innews:229fb24e-5511-4b94...@q5g2000yqj.googlegroups.com:
>
> > 7. Jean-Luc Godard on Quentin Tarantino:
> > "Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He'd
> > have done better to give me some money."
>
> The smartest line in the bunch. I mean, seriously, what's the point
> of publicly dashing people you might just have to deal with next
> month?
>
> - Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA
Except that these directors probably didn't have to deal with other
directors.
People are criticizing everything and everybody
every single day in these newsgroups and other forums, so why can't a
director who actually KNOWS what it's all about criticize other
directors? Have they less rights than we do?
We are free to agree with them or not.
Melanie