Directors on filmmaking | Film4 Self Portraits

[@ThatOllieBloke]

Whoever edited these interviews, and placed Ben Wheatly before Christopher Nolan deserves all the high fives! Burst out laughing over Super 8 Stories :D

[@dacadoc]

Tarantino spoke for 20 seconds, out of which he said "uh" for 10 seconds. dammit life

[@thebrandonkm]

Love how Scorsese just pops up at the end and completely wrecks everybody XD

[@Georgiaboy_]

***** He went over my head lol

[@TrollFaceProductions]

***** REKT

[@acharich]

***** LOOOL craaay..!

[@savedfaves]

+Josh Oliver I think his point was with film you're not trying to reproduce life verbatim. You're making a heightened reality and it's good to be aware of that fact as it may help to know it.

[@scattjax3908]

+BKMPictures Boom! Scorsese summed up the whole thing. The professor has finished the class damn it! You've been schooled, now go do your homework :)

[@jamesmurphy9630]

Wheatley: "I never made short films on my dad's super 8 camera." Nolan: "I started making films on my dad's super 8 camera."

[@kevinmuendo9889]

Ben wheatley: yeah I was too poor to shoot on super 8 when I was younger Nolan: yeah sharted shooting super 8's when i was 6

[@DominicGrindrod]

one day I will be a professional director

[@tulips3179]

Dom Grindrod follow your dreams dude, you can do it!!!!!!!

[@thatguy2874]

And we will see your films and admire them!

[@corrupt_insomniac]

Do it! Seriously! Do it!!!!

[@jackeberle3565]

ditto

[@ryanmuller1994]

i don't know you but i know you will with that attitude

[@asafisher8288]

who else would have loved to see a big argument break out between the different directors

[@samcooke343]

Brilliant video, thanks very much.

[@GoodBlogChanel]

I love Peter Jackson's outlook on movie making

[@mishtaromaniello8295]

Scorsese always lets young filmmakers know what the reality of a situation is and doesn't sugarcoat it, lol.

[@lovejoy26]

I strongly aspire to be a filmmaker one day. These comments were very reassuring because I have felt the same insecurities. Thank you very much for sharing this!

[@lotsapeachtree5513]

Don’t “aspire” to be a filmmaker … you ARE a filmmaker. Do it.

[@nfltrrrqwsa7512]

make sure you strongly aspire and write comments on youtube for likes. that's important

[@NostalgiNorden]

I whish this was just 9 minutes of Tarantino

[@marilynmalone1381]

Bet you thought that going into it

[@asafisher8288]

Make it 9 hours

[@RyanGiggsOBE]

NostalgiNorden check out Rodriguez interviews Tarantino. Great interview and pretty sure its just under 2 hours.

[@NostalgiNorden]

RyanGiggsOBE i did that months ago ;)

[@albertosaurschannel6946]

I heard rumors that Tarantino may retire after the Hateful Eight

[@EisforEvil]

"Everyone's stepped on glass" Huh?

[@alexisascencio9397]

Took a risk.. Maybe?

[@Dinjur]

Tarantino, Nolan, and Fincher

[@Kyngg]

Same

[@Alfez34]

Scorsese

[@afonsolucas2219]

I like Fincher, but his stare scares the crap out of me...

[@madinamaachou9993]

RealMetalGaming s

[@comedydan3155]

Tarantino, Scorsese and Roth

[@9000caffeinefreak]

Scorsese just capped that off so perfectly at the end, what with the earnest and straightforward way he just looks into the camera. 'The fantasy is what we're doing now, right here in this room. With these lights and cameras and mirrors. Something else is existing there, I don't know what.'

[@clairethemusician968]

I Like how they ended him because he's one of my favorites! John Carpenter should have been in this as well cause he's another one!!!!!!📼📼📼📺📺📺📹📹📹🎥🎥🎥📽📽📽🎬🎬🎬

[@user-qt6ud3sp6w]

I saw this Video a few months ago, one quote struck me, but I couldn't remember who said it and I didn't remember the video name . Now I found a video that I new was in the related section a few weeks ago and after so many sessions I finally found this video again. David Cronenberg: ''Using film to explore the human condition.''

[@rajneessingh222]

Tarantino, the craziest, wildest and also most imaginative...just like his films.

[@SeanScottColony]

Love having Wheatley's comments lead in to Nolan's comments.

[@ibSprintin]

I wish Winding Refn and PTA were on here.

[@LittleBigGeneral]

ibsprintin YES!!!

[@andres96tejeiro]

+ibsprintin Yeah, and not just by name (not saying your naming them just cuz of their fame) but because Nicolas is extremely passionate about his work and is a pleassure to hear him talk and PT Anderson is like the god of inspiration for filmmaking... BOTH INCREDIBLE

[@travisbest9041]

+Im Vo you are rude, crude, cretinous, and vile.

[@daliaqasem8664]

we need some more inspiring female directors

[@timy9197]

"We" don't need everything. Talent is all that matters and that can come from anyone. Gender doesn't matter.

[@rumshutt3r]

Dalia Qasem lynne ramsay.

[@poiesist]

You guys are dicks. There's a serious under representation of female directors at all, not even to mention hyper-famous directors like Tarantino or Spielberg. Katherine Bigalow needs some more invites to director sessions like these.

[@traplover6357]

Ti My it does since it creates a societal standard/stereotype that X gender/race/ethnicity/group can only apply to this occupation, potentially missing out on some talents due to missed signalling. If there was no pioneer, then no one will follow. It occurs with race and gender all the time as history has shown.

[@cometcourse381]

C.E. Olson, the issue is that there aren't any good female directors aside from Lynne Ramsay. Seriously, I can't think of a SINGLE great female director.

[@yasminemekhlouf7333]

we need Wes Anderson and Denis Villeneuve in this!

[@yasminemekhlouf7333]

@Careful Icarus that's just like your opinion man

[@onegirlrev]

DFinch & QT FTW. So inspiring.

[@jackmiddleton2080]

I like what Ridley said about screenplays. It would make sense that no screenplay is up to par with what he wants. Because you have a vision and the writer has a vision. And you definitely can't see what the writer sees. So all you can do is simply say that there is a story there. Then you make it what it needs to be for your film. What Scorsese said was cool. He is right. There is magic in whatever you film because we are trying to create something different. Also Tarantino is a god.

[@cristoburn4778]

Scorsese cracks me up at the end for some reason. Genius.

[@mychalsimonz]

Awesome!!!! Lol I've watched 17 times already ......... So inspiring!!!!

[@scattjax3908]

Quentin could quite possibly be the greatest director with messy hair in this video. Such a rebel :)

[@TheTarrMan]

If they ever make a movie about the life of Robin Williams, Quentin Tarantino should play that part.

[@rumshutt3r]

TheTarrMan why?

[@TheTarrMan]

Something about his charter reminds me of him.

[@rumshutt3r]

TheTarrMan oh ya, same kinda, that would be a very interesting performance.

[@lemons9749]

TheTarrMan no tarantino can't act

[@aryanrabbani119]

No

[@cevahirileri7594]

I love you, Tarantino.

[@helgatoterbaum]

there must be more Likes under these so-much-true words )

[@Tipperito]

they left the best for last, scorcese is my favorite director and quentin tarantino is too, cant decide which is better, fuck it they're both my favorite

[@comedydan3155]

Same here and so is Eli Roth, The order goes Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Eli Roth

[@marilynmalone1381]

Fantastic video though I'd love to see the coen bros

[@OneWanAndHisDog]

Peter Mullan gave the best analogy I've seen yet!

[@SX1995able]

Why was Eli Roth here? That dude's movies are trash.

[@nighttray1489]

My thoughts exactly.

[@Willismcnillis]

Eli Roth has an incredible love for cinema. Horror especially. And he's worked with Tarantino. What have you done lately?

[@SX1995able]

I get that the dude loves cinema, but in all honesty....his films are trash. I respect his love of film, but he has done nothing worthwhile. Supposedly Tarantino is doing a horror movie next....I really hope he keeps Roth out of it.

[@werohk2926]

I'm late to this but I think the Hostel films are worthwhile. I can't speak to anything else he's done (The Green Inferno especially appears to be totally abysmal) but I came across the Hostel movies the same time I was going through the phase of exploring all sorts of the grotesque/exploitative horror films that the Saw movies inspired, and I have to say the balance of humor and pitch black dread is certainly something to aspire to. I don't think that's an easy balance to achieve, and it's one that Tarantino built his career on. When I watch the Hostel movies I see through the eye of a filmmaker who understands how to utilize an inherent sadism to plot beats in stages as early as writing, and as wannabes we have to appreciate that. Plus, you're really telling me that Cabin Fever is a "trash" film? That movie blasts up and through the roof.

[@odawg114]

These guys are good, but if Alfred Hitchcock or Francis Ford Coppola were in this, everybody would be on their knees.

[@ianfilipovic4227]

Odawg Kizzack you got a time machine?

[@iNinjaWalker]

Odawg Kizzack Not Francis Ford Coppola, imo

[@TH3WastedPenguin]

Odawg Kizzack Please, Scorsese and Nolan are the true masters. Hitchcook and Coppola paved the way, But these guys perfected it

[@ianfilipovic4227]

***** Nolan is not even on the same level buddy

[@TH3WastedPenguin]

Ian Filipovich Agree to disagree...

[@Marshall_Arts101]

One day I will be a Professional Filmmaker

[@K1ANOOP]

“We’re trying to create something different.” - Martin Scorsese👊🏽💯

[@TomDeLaCruz]

the only director that does his own projects and makes a film that he wants to see as an audience as well as a filmmaker is Tarantino... a genuine writer/ director, most directors use someone elses creativity and then compromise that vision for the studio, Tarantino is the only balls to the wall guy who does what he wants 100% no bullshit... doesn't matter if you like it or you don't he won't compromise his vision, that's why he is unique and stands out...

[@jesusvelilla8117]

Oliver Stone also

[@harrygill3008]

As a young aspiring English filmmaker nice to c so many British filmmakers on this vid gives more hope

[@amesstevens3975]

Filmmakers have no idea what they’re doing. Anyway, I love being a filmmaker.

[@GRINDHOUSE239]

I was half expecting Speilberg to pop up at then end and say I agree with everybody.

[@vtotheg6494]

I fucking love Scorsese

[@notoriousjm95]

I know how seclusion he is, but I really wish Terrence Malick could of made an exception and done an interview for this video. I've always wanted to hear what he has to say about filmmaking.

[@olliedraper228]

This video is fantastic! Inspirational to young film makers! Excellent, everyone should see this!!! :D

[@bsjett]

That's one sweet beard, Peter Mullan.

[@caroljackson4513]

Thanks you guys for sharing your thoughts on filmmaking. It helps people like myself that decided to do this at the age of 60.

[@ilyaonthefly]

Amazing video, really nice to get all of the director's thoughts and opinions. I think I found Scorsese's advice to be particularly helpful in the overall of what making films really is.

[@CHARLIEBrownz]

James Cameron/Christopher Nolan/Steven McQueen/Spike Lee/Ron Howard/Stephen Spielberg/David Fincher Ridley Scott and so many others.

[@fatamy8597]

Do you think your religion or ethnicity affects your chances of becoming a filmmaker ?

[@reylacuesta6345]

I love quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Peter Jackson, ,Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg Movies

[@francisjtuk]

I know he's one of the greatest directors ever with a huge portfolio of mgreat works but I simply can't get out of my head how closely Christopher Nolan resembles Tim Nice but Dim from Harry Enfield days.

[@appleeyebeauty]

lol 1 women well done thanks for representation

[@silvijosabajo7579]

Martin scorsese is so great he can't even explain It.

[@martinaguilar1220]

My dream is to be a famous movie director

[@brampieterse]

Quentin Tarantino

[@TomDeLaCruz]

mmm yes, i am christopher nolan, i want to pay 10 pounds to watch a film at a cinema... and drink a cup of tea with the queen

[@melissamullenfilms464]

This is really interesting. Videos like this deserve way more views. Fascinating stuff.

[@Logan-ly6nn]

some of their voices are more interesting than their movies

[@TheSMLIFfilms]

I'm really hoping that "writer" and "great taste in music" will equate to "successful director" for me.

[@faze_snipars2218]

James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy *coughs*

[@lopezfan24]

Sounds like you're trying to replicate Tarantino to me.

[@charliesealvids]

+FaZe_snipars Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack was a rip off of Reservoir Dogs soundtrack

[@merlinmediagroup]

Peter Mullan, although he has only directed 3 movies, is one of my favourite directors.

[@landrucuchulainstarwordcouk]

See ANGRY HITCHCOCK FILMS NUISANCE BITCHCOPS. Belinda's Hot Air. Bunderchook Starword Poet.

[@harrisonsmovietributes1689]

Going from Ben Wheatley to Christopher Nolan 😂🤦‍♂️

[@MikelGCinema]

Greengrass's best advise ever.

[@ajax4887]

480p in 2015 am I in the Twilight zone??

[@brookizzy1]

Quentin!!!!the best one!! I love him

[@R2Sytchannel]

Fincher and Tarantino were the best directors in this video, and yes, I saw Scorsese.

[@gabrielesimone1372]

Gosh, I really want to be a director

[@keepmewierd]

James Cameron, when given an opportunity to talk about the magic of cinema to inspire young people, is the only one to use the term "marketplace." lolol if you're focused on making money, you're not going to have a good time as a ~filmmaker~ in this world

[@samo917]

I find Steve McQueen's movie really personify that essence of filmmaking that is making the unseen seen.

[@SankeKamble]

Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino ♥️

[@saraha7365]

Just one woman, just one person of colour and a whole load of middle aged white men. Yawn.

[@chrissz7592]

the fuck is eli roth doing amongst these artists?

[@startervisions]

talking about film making

[@benlewissmith]

ELI ROTH IS AN AMAZING FILM MAKER,HE MADE HORROR GOOD AGAIN

[@chrissz7592]

startervisions really? no shit. his 'films' are awful though, thus my rhetorical question

[@ToastySpeakers]

Chris Sz I suppose that his sarcasm went yards above your head so I'll make it easier to understand. Nobody gives a fuck.

[@skateordie002]

Chris Sz I think it's more about the passion that he has. If you have passion, I'd consider you to be an artist.

[@ErikThureson]

Very Well Done! Keep 'em coming!

[@orr971]

King Nolan is the best! LORD! Loved seeing him, Tarantino, Fincher and Scorsese talking

[@Owen-ub3fv]

5:04 Tarantino channelling Heath Ledger Joker mannerisms.

[@ohthepeppers]

Lots of greats here. . . and then Tarantino, whose film-making is to cinema what collage is to art. He's made a career out of cherry-picking bits and pieces of other peoples work, pastiching and gluing them together and then filling his films with characters who all talk like Quentin Tarantino. But thumbs up for the rest. And Peter Mullan's beard.

[@TheNitroaurora]

ohthepeppers Well, of course his works are never really innovative and forward-looking. But that's exactly the what he is aiming for. He loves old movies that he grew up with and he wants see them again in big screen. So he takes what he likes, improves, and mashes them with modern concepts. And I think there's nothing wrong with it. Since his movies been a really big part of film history, no one can say that he is not influential and persistant.

[@SLeiningerMusic]

ohthepeppers Tarantino himself says that he steals from every movie ever made. No homage bullshit. No tributes. And at this point, what hasn't already been in another movie years or decades ago? Everything is stealing from something else nowadays.

[@wolfstar675]

Why do people see "stealing" from another film as something bad? It's not if done with style and respect. That could be said about music as well.

[@thebiskutt]

ohthepeppers He said himself that he steals so many things that it creates something entirely new, which is absolutely true. He took a hundred different things from movies to put in Kill Bill, yet it entirely stands on its own as an original creation.

[@staceyjones124]

ohthepeppers Good artist copy, great artist steal - Pablo Picasso.

[@kennethaucoin3664]

I will make it man

[@TeaDrinker3000]

This video is a gem

[@kuku1647]

Tarantino❤️

[@MrForestExplorer]

This is such an inspiring collection of advice from some of the best directors. Thanks for the share.

[@hollywoodanonymous2852]

Okay. Serious question film4. How did you get all of those amazing directors in the same room?

[@faze_snipars2218]

They kidnapped them

[@sudha4241]

@@faze_snipars2218 thanks for the chuckle

[@TheTonybudd]

I can't take anything Christopher Nolan says seriously . . . he remind's me too much of 'Tim nice but Dim' from the Harry Enfield show . . .

[@DirectorDebutOfficial]

thank you

[@jordanhyde3548]

We need to seperate greed from art. It pollutes something that would otherwise be beautiful. Quality entertainment saves lives, heals wounds and opens minds. So many young artists get caught up in this mentality of "make something good and then i'll have the money, the friends, the success" They never figured out who they were. Even the greatest directors are still caught in a balancing act between creativity and narcissism. Nurture your narcissism, feel it, let it grow into altruism.

[@jonnypanteloni]

Love how this could have been shot on a point and shoot that was able to lock focus, then again you've got 4:4:4 compression (no pixel binning) but still it's the lighting that makes this interview appealing, and what makes fun of the current "pits and holes" of the creatives in today (low res image vs the stylistic concerns of emerging motion photographic artists). To top it all off the comment section could be a ratings system for best determining popularity of director's style. Make sure you look at comments that were before 10/9/15 if you want to gain a useful opinion, as people like me after this date will read this comment and most likely try to throw things off balance by voting for the null.

[@ogbee9690]

Peter jackson made lotr he is automatically the best

[@son0fnel]

That was a lot of hairy men, mainly white. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed most of these people's visions, but damn Hollywood give others a chance maybe?

[@afonsolucas2219]

More Variety doesn't mean more quality. A person should be there because they deserve or because they are good at it.

[@son0fnel]

So are you saying there aren't any other award winning directors out there who aren't hairy men who don't deserve to be sat on that chair?

[@afonsolucas2219]

nelson kaboots Wait? What?

[@lucasstrunc7669]

These people paved their own paths, as they've told you in this video. Hollywood is not a big selection machine...A lot of directors raise money for their own films, and start up their own production companies from the ground up.

[@MarkAS56]

nelson kaboots the majority of people who try to become directors are white men. That means a vast majority of directors will be white men. Still today, that's true.

[@antonk6359]

Why are practically all the great artists & writers & directors & composers men? Seriously...look at top 10 greatest lists for any creative (or even scientific) geniuses and all you see are representatives from the masculine gender.

[@alan5496]

A Bug Why stop there? List as many female directors as there are in this clip that have made films that have become classics. Gender equality is about equal opportunity, not equal outcome.

[@antonk6359]

***** Than you for your explanation GENIUS

[@antonk6359]

***** I will if you practice your basic grammar, troll boy.

[@nowankersallowed2115]

director's i love because they show the perspectives through the placement of where people are and how best to capture that moment.. the cameramen that have learned the different lenses or filters for a certain look, to know when and where to zoom in or zoom out and at what speed to do so .. what angle to be at to catch the images they need.. these are all things I love about the movie makers who can allow that to be known and then applied in other aspects of life.. when looking at a situation is it from this angle or that angle.. what might be the filter that this person is perceiving information.. what is their own angle on the situation.. this is in part what I learn when I watch movies. That's why I say thank you for sharing your own talents. There is a lot of collective experience within a movie. If only the medical profession who diagnose or try to diagnose people could have a similar understanding of the enormity within an individual who may just need a creative outlet to express themselves and use whatever they are going through as a positive even if at times negative thoughts or feelings because someone, somewhere just may relate or even be able to offer the soothing words of hope. This is what movies are capable of doing on a much broader scale. Reaching potentially hundreds of thousands of people, who just might understand, even if only in part.

[@chayemkadeem2079]

I live in the outskirts pf india ... I really admire you Tarantino

[@alexispapageorgiou72]

Entertainment or Art? That's the million-dollar question ...

[@michaelgilmore9286]

Michael bay is a genius I do not care what anyone says, produces shit movies every year and still makes millions, that is genius

[@scattjax3908]

+Michael Gilmore I can't argue with that. But I can't watch 'em either :)

[@michaelgilmore9286]

***** he is a painful genius

[@danielgunz2364]

business genius

[@AnOfferHeCantRefuse]

Nolan's forehead is extremely distracting.

[@jamiem6436]

£10 Chris?! I have to skip rent to go to the cinema....

[@siblilngs101]

Maybe women should go into the film industry if they want more representation in interviews. Don't just make movies, make GOOD movies. Bunch of armchair activists screaming for change but not helping in the slightest.

[@patrickhebdo5423]

You just summarized the entire contradiction of modern feminism.

[@SpencerMeadFilm]

They're all wizards.. each an every one of them.

[@duaneayers6117]

What ever. Every one of these people have been on the Casting Couch then there knees

[@SinKimishima]

its eerie how Ridley Scott has not aged in like 30 years...

[@jaydyer6682]

Make the film you wanna watch is the best advice

[@nfltrrrqwsa7512]

5:30 "I wanna make money out of it"

[@thecriticandtheuncle5784]

I agree with Jess Gell about female directors. I also want to see less of Eli Roth (or none at all)

[@gell_docs]

+The Critic and The Uncle Thank you!

[@TERRAMOUNT]

pretty sweet!