Tuesday, August 7
Time was, in a so-called classical tradition of cinema, when the preparation of a film meant first of all finding a good story, developing it, scripting it and writing dialogue; with that done, you found actors who suited the characters and then you shot it. This is something I've done twice, with Paris nous appartient [1960] and La Religieuse [1966], and I found the method totally unsatisfying.... What I have tried since — after many others, following the precedents of Rouch, Godard and so on — is to attempt to find, alone or in company..., a generating principle which will then, as though on its own (I stress the "as though"), develop in an autonomous manner and engender a filmic product from which, afterwards, a film...can be cut, or rather "produced".
— Jacques Rivette
