Jerzy Skolimowski

28 films · 1960 to 2015 · 1 on TSPDT
Born May 5, 1938
Jerzy Skolimowski

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I'm afraid that cinema is going in the wrong direction, becoming more and more literary, depending too much on the dialogue, on words. And if I had any master, it would be Robert Bresson because he was the one who really showed us the way to reduce the amount of explanation, to reduce dialogue, to reduce everything that is literature in film.

If I had any master, it would be Robert Bresson because he was the one who really showed us the way to reduce the amount of explanation, to reduce dialogue, to reduce everything that is literature in film.

I try to follow the rule of showing rather than telling. And if I had any master, it would be Robert Bresson because he was the one who really showed us the way to reduce the amount of explanation, to reduce dialogue, to reduce everything that is literature in film.

On Essential Killing · The Quietus: Jerzy Skolimowski Interview on Essential Killing

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