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July 31, 2007
Schrader goes long on Bergman
"I would not have made any of my films or written scripts such as Taxi Driver had it not been for Ingmar Bergman... He was an old man. But what he has left is a legacy greater than any other director. He made film-making a serious and introspective enterprise. No one had been able to pull that off until he showed up. I really wasn't that interested in being a film-maker, except in the way that Bergman redefined what you could be as a film-maker. I think the extraordinary thing that Bergman will be remembered for, other than his body of work, was that he probably did more than anyone to make cinema a medium of personal and introspective value. Movies by nature are, of course, very commercially driven and very accessible. No one really used cinema as private personal expression in that way. Bergman showed that you could actually do movies that were personal introspections and have them seen by general audiences." [Expanded at the link.]
Posted by Ray Pride at July 31, 2007 01:35 PM
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