# Directors Blasting Other Directors
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** movies
**Created:** [March 9, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648 "2024-03-09T15:10:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/1 "2024-03-09T15:10:28Z")
**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 seriousness. He’s done two masterpieces, you don’t have to bother with the rest. One is Blow-Up (1966), which I’ve seen many times, and the other is La Notte (1961), also a wonderful film, although that’s mostly because of the young Jeanne Moreau. In my collection, have a copy of Il Grido (1957) and damn what a boring movie it is. So devilishly sad, I mean. You know, Antonioni never really learned the trade. He concentrated on single images, never realizing that film is a rhythmic flow of images, a movement. Sure, there are brilliant moments in his films. But I don’t feel anything for L’Avventura (1960), for example. Only indifference. I never understood why Antonioni was so incredibly applauded. And I thought his muse Monica Vitti was a terrible actress.”
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/2 "2024-03-09T22:57:51Z")
Orson Welles on Woody Allen:
> He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/3 "2024-03-10T02:28:00Z")
**David Cronenberg on M. Night Shyamalan**
> I HATE that guy! Next question.
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### Author:  [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/4 "2024-03-10T02:56:11Z")
“…David Lean, the director I hate the most. That he represents everything I want to wipe out, you know? Like this tyranny of good taste. My mother loved his movies, right? Like, if they were forced down my throat…it was almost child abuse of good taste.”
----John Waters
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/5 "2024-03-10T03:02:39Z")
Spike Lee on Quentin Tarentino and his use of a certain word:
> 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?
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/6 "2024-03-10T03:25:11Z")
Seth MacFarlane re: Trey Parker and Matt Stone (responding to a _South Park_ episode that skewered _Family Guy_ for lazy writing):
> The boys at _South Park_ are absolutely correct. Those cutaways and flashbacks have nothing to do with the story. They’re just there to be funny. And that is a shallow indulgence that _South Park_ is quite above.
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### Author:  [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/7 "2024-03-10T04:07:17Z")
It should be noted that Seth McFarlane’s original response was going to be putting Matt and Trey in an Family Guy cutaway where they were having anal sex with each other, because apparently making them gay was funny? But he only stopped when he realized the scene would only air 8 months after the South Park episode and didn’t want to be stuck in a situation where it takes him multiple months to respond in-show while South Park can reply by the next week.
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/8 "2024-03-10T07:12:25Z")
Welles was Fuckin’ Awesome!
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### Author:  [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/9 "2024-03-10T12:13:00Z")
“Lawrence of Arabia” was just on TCM yesterday… I saw it a few times, and didn’t care for it, but I might give it one more chance.
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### Author:  [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/10 "2024-03-10T14:29:02Z")
> [@Spike Lee post:5](#):
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> What does he want to be made – an honorary black man?
I dislike Spike Lee, but wow one thing he and I agree on. I’ve thought this since Pulp Fiction.
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### Author:  [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/11 "2024-03-10T14:40:20Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#):
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> > He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.
Welles sounds like a moronic windbag. Lots of extreme judgements that add up to nothing — maybe that’s the Most Embarrassing Thing in the World.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/12 "2024-03-10T15:09:56Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> I dislike Spike Lee, but wow one thing he and I agree on. I’ve thought this since Pulp Fiction.
It’s so embarrassing that when it happens, it takes me out of any QT movie while I’m watching it.
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Welles was Fuckin’ Awesome!
> [@Baal\_Houtham](#):
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> Welles sounds like a moronic windbag.
The duality of man.
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### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/13 "2024-03-10T15:14:14Z")
Welles: “It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest.”
While pointing out others who are “unbelievably arrogant”. 🤔 🤣
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/14 "2024-03-10T15:23:46Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#):
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> He’s done two masterpieces, you don’t have to bother with the rest. One is Blow-Up (1966), which I’ve seen many times
As opposed to SCTV’s Big Jim McBob, who liked all of Antonioni’s films except Blow-Up - because “nothing blowed up!” (“I got my money back on that one.”)
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### Author:  [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/15 "2024-03-10T18:30:37Z")
Happens in all creative fields, I think.
For example Artie Shaw supposedly said about Benny Goodman:
“Goodman plays clarinet. I play music.”
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/16 "2024-03-10T23:34:22Z")
Hayao Miyazaki on Walt Disney:
> From my perspective, even if they are lightweight in nature, the more popular and common films still must be filled with a purity of emotion. There are few barriers to entry into these films – they will invite anyone in – but the barriers to exit must be high and purifying. Films must also not be produced out of idle nervousness or boredom, or be used to recognise, emphasise, or amplify vulgarity. And in that context, I must say that I hate Disney’s works. The barrier to both the entry and exit of Disney films is too low and too wide. To me, they show nothing but contempt for the audience.
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### Author:  [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2024, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/17 "2024-03-10T23:47:03Z")
Well, that man will never go anywhere in Hollywood.
> **[At 83, filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki earns historic Oscar for ‘The Boy and the Heron’](https://www.yahoo.com/news/83-filmmaker-hayao-miyazaki-earns-233951711.html)**
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> Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary Japanese filmmaker whose anime classics have enchanted fans around the world for decades, has won his second career Oscar. At 83, Miyazaki won for helming the best animated film, “The Boy and the Heron,” the...
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### Author:  [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/18 "2024-03-11T13:17:42Z")
have you seen their take on “Hollywood After Dark”? It’s on YouTube - so funny
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/19 "2024-03-11T20:55:55Z")
Came across this Bergman quote on Jean-Luc Godard in the wild today:
"I’ve never been able to appreciate any of his films, nor even understand them… I find his films affected, intellectual, self-obsessed and, as cinema, without interest and frankly dull… I’ve always thought that he made films for critics.”
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### Author:  [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2024, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/20 "2024-03-12T10:20:53Z")
Godard was a critic before directing interestingly enough
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