# Directors Blasting Other Directors **URL:** \ **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:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/21 "2024-03-12T12:59:19Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > 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. Maybe he should have brought that up when they were both in **Casino Royale** ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/22 "2024-03-12T14:41:51Z")
Talk about lack of self-awareness. Pretty just every quote here has the speaker presuming that everyone listening already regards him as a great director, if not The Greatest, no question. But in reality, for every Citizen Kane there’s a green pea commercial to balance it. And really, Hayao Miyazaki, that just sounds like sour grapes. Disney films can be good (and they are!) without diminishing yours. There’s room for both. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/23 "2024-03-12T15:28:11Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > And really, Hayao Miyazaki, that just sounds like sour grapes. Disney films can be good (and they are!) without diminishing yours. There’s room for both. He did have good things to say about “Up” in 2009: > **[Hayao Miyazaki's Thoughts on Pixar's Up](http://ghiblicon.blogspot.com/2009/12/hayao-miyazakis-thoughts-on-pixar.html?m=1)** > > Ghibli Blog is the home for fans of Studio Ghibli, animation and the movies. We feature the latest news, reviews, essays and more. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/24 "2024-03-12T15:39:52Z")
His relationship with Disney makes for interesting reading. > **[The long, ugly history between Disney and Studio Ghibli](https://www.polygon.com/animation-cartoons/2020/5/27/21272224/disney-studio-ghibli-partnership-dubs-history)** > > The corporation never figured out Ghibli movies’ appeal or range ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/25 "2024-03-12T15:47:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Talk about lack of self-awareness. Pretty just every quote here has the speaker presuming that everyone listening already regards him as a great director, if not The Greatest, no question. But in reality, for every Citizen Kane there’s a green pea commercial to balance it. > > And really, Hayao Miyazaki, that just sounds like sour grapes. Disney films can be good (and they are!) without diminishing yours. There’s room for both. Yeah, I don’t like it when artists dis other artists. Like them or not, they’re supposed to be you colleagues. It’s tacky. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2024, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/26 "2024-03-12T16:37:41Z")
That’s not dissing, that’s friendly banter, THIS is dissing: > **[Francisco de Quevedo | Enemies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_de_Quevedo#Enemies)** > > Quevedo's enemies included, among others, the dramatist Juan Ruiz de Alarcón for, despite his own physical handicaps, Quevedo found Alarcón's redheaded and hunchbacked physique a source of amusement. Quevedo also attacked Juan Pérez de Montalbán, the son of a bookseller with whom he had quarrelled, satirizing him in La Perinola (The Whirligig), a piece that he included in his book Para todos (For Everyone). In 1608, Quevedo duelled with the author and fencing master Luis Pacheco de Narváez as a r... ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/27 "2024-03-15T10:31:08Z")
I actually prefer “dissing” to someone complimenting everyone else for their own sake. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/28 "2024-03-15T13:30:44Z")
To each their own. Personally, I consider graciousness admirable. ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2024, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/29 "2024-03-16T14:02:35Z")
> [@MortSahlFan](#): > > “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. _Lawrence_ was shot on 70mm film and made to be seen on the largest cinema screens. Watching it on TV is like trying to appreciate the Mona Lisa by looking at a postage stamp of it. Assuming you won’t be able to see it in a 70mm film theater any time soon (although if you have the chance, grab it!), watch it on the largest screen you can, darken the room, sit closer than usual, and try to develop a zen-like patience for the pacing. ---
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/30 "2024-03-18T13:38:55Z")
I never actually go to the theaters (I don’t like movies made in my lifetime), but I did see it on TCM, but my issue with it was not only the length, but the script… So much beating around the bush, the exchanges were not real substantial. I didn’t know the motivations of many. ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/31 "2024-03-20T16:34:25Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Maybe he should have brought that up when they were both in **Casino Royale** Geez, he said it _before_ 1967? I love Orson Well **e** s as director and raconteur yet he was talking about a guy who had made just “What’s New Pussycat” (meh) and “What’s up Tiger Lily” (an hilarious classic to the 12 year old me) ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648/32 "2024-03-20T16:41:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Maybe he should have brought that up when they were both in **Casino Royale** I’m sure Woody would have punched Orson straight in the face… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/directors-blasting-other-directors/998648.md?page=1)