Ingmar Bergman
"Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness."
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Poll: Directors Insulting Each Other (Part 2)
Which of these directors made the most stinging insult about a colleague? (here's part 1)
Make Your Choice
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Jean-Luc Godard
"Tarantino named his production company after one of my films. He’d have done better to give me some money." (Tarantino named his company A Band Apart after Godard's film 'Bande à part') -
Jacques Rivette
on Stanley Kubrick: "Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it’s great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001." -
Tim Burton
on Kevin Smith (after Smith jokingly accused Burton of stealing the ending of Planet of the Apes from a Smith comic book): "Anyone who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I would especially never read anything created by Kevin Smith." -
Kevin Smith
on Tim Burton (in response to "I would never read a comic book"): "Which, to me, explains *beep* Batman." -
David Cronenberg
on M. Night Shymalan: "I HATE that guy! Next question." -
Werner Herzog
"I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is. But let him fight the windmills… I’ve never seen a film by him. I have no idea who he is. Is he Italian? Is he French? Who is he?" (Abel Ferrara directed 'Bad Lieutenant' which Herzog remade into 'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans') -
Vincent Gallo
"Sofia Coppola likes any guy who has what she wants. If she wants to be a photographer she’ll *beep* a photographer. If she wants to be a filmmaker, she’ll *beep* a filmmaker. She’s a parasite just like her fat, pig father was." (her father is filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola) -
Spike Lee
about Tarantino's use of the N-word: "I’m not against the word, and I use it, but not excessively. And some people speak that way. But, Quentin is infatuated with that word. What does he want to be made — an honorary black man?" -
David Gordon Green
on Kevin Smith: "He kind of created a Special Olympics for film. They just kind of lowered the standard. I’m sure their parents are proud; it’s just nothing I care to buy a ticket for." -
Alan Parker
on Peter Greenaway (specifically The Draughtsman’s Contact): "A load of posturing poo-poo." -
Paul Thomas Anderson
on David Fincher and his film 'Fight Club': "I saw thirty minutes of it only because our trailer is playing in front of it. And I would love to go on railing about the movie, but I'm just going to pretend as if I haven't seen it. It's just unbearable. I wish David Fincher testicular cancer, for all of his jokes about it, I wish him testicular *beep* cancer." -
Stanley Kubrick
on Steven Spielberg's 'Schindler's List': "Think that's about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about 6 million people who get killed. Schindler's List is about 600 who don't." -
George Clooney
on his work with David O. Russell on 'Three Kings': "David pouted through the rest of the shoot and we finished the movie, but it was truly, without exception, the worst experience of my life." -
Sam Peckinpah
on Francis Ford Coppola and 'The Godfather': "Haven’t seen it - but I hate Coppola, too.... Because I hear the film is great and the only movies I want to like are my movies. I don’t want any other son of a bitch making good movies."
