Lucrecia Martel famous quotes

A film is a process of thinking that is not opposed to an emotional process.
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Emotional #Thinking #Film

My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full of discussions of condensation, drifts, misunderstanding, repetition. These are the materials I work with. My debt is to these women.
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Mother #Stories #Oral Tradition

I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Writing #Emotion #Knows

Emotion and thinking are not distinct substances.
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Thinking #Substance #Emotion

Without doubt, in animation each frame is important, every movement defines the character.
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Character #Doubt #Important

I am concerned that a film without an large advertising [budget] can not establish a connection with contemporary audiences, of course.
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Connections #Advertising #Film

I am fairly optimistic about the disillusionment that produces homogeneity in general. The films that succeed in [theaters] are fairly homogeneous in terms of narrative and vision of the world.
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Optimistic #Vision #World

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].
-- Lucrecia Martel

#Film Music #Information #Consumption

Of course, even the general designation 'religious' includes various basic ideas or convictions, for example, the indestructibility of the soul, the eternity of its existence, the existence of a higher being, etc. But all these ideas, regardless of how convincing they may be for the individual, are submitted to the critical examination of this individual and hence to a fluctuating affirmation or negation until emotional divination or knowledge assumes the binding force of apodictic faith.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Think it over, think it under.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

If there is Katrina Kaif in any film, the movie is a hit

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.