« Four Eyed Monsters: DIY eyes wide open | Main | Like Ali G.: How Fernando Meirelles learned his craft »
August 22, 2005
Did I ever want to build an automobile?: Pennebaker at 80
David D'Arcy has a swell interview with D.A.Pennebaker over at Greencine on the doc-maker's 80th birthday.
Did you ever want to make dramatic features? I didn't understand how they were made. It was like, did I ever want to build an automobile? Sure I did, but it has no meaning for me. When I saw Francis Thompson's film, N.Y., N.Y. (1957), which he made by himself with a hand-wound city special, I said, "Shit, I can do that." I'm a graduate engineer from Yale University, for Chrissakes, I've got to be able to do that. That set me off doing it, because the idea was that I could do it all by myself. I knew I couldn't do features by myself because you had to have it written, you had to have actors, and I was a loner, so those things were not part of my life at all.
Posted by pride at August 22, 2005 04:53 PM
Comments
link not working :>
Posted by: sky_capitan ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.mcnblogs.com/mcindie/nav-commenters.gif)
at August 22, 2005 07:07 PM
Fixed... Grazie.
Posted by: prideray at August 23, 2005 12:45 AM
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)