Quotes by Pirjo Honkasalo - Page 1

Every documentary is subjective. It's a total lie to say there are objective documentaries.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Documentaries
Lying
Subjective
Copy Quote
The cinematography was of course incredibly important to me because I graduated as a cinematographer.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Cinematography
Courses
Important
Copy Quote
You give your film away to the audience once it's done. I never look at my films after the premier. The film needs to start its own history.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Giving
Looks
Needs
Copy Quote
At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Childhood
Periods
Personality
Copy Quote
I think that too often we, film directors, think that a big epic novel and feature film are the same. It's a lie. A feature film is much closer to a short story actually.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Epic
Lying
Thinking
Copy Quote
It's said that if two documentary filmmakers meet they talk about the world, if two fiction filmmakers meet they talk about the million that they don't have to make their film.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Documentaries
Fiction
Two
Copy Quote
There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Feelings
Film
People
Copy Quote
I had worked in fiction a lot before I started making documentaries, but when I was around 32 or 33-years-old I suddenly got so fed up with the world of fiction, which is so money-centered.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Documentaries
Fiction
Years
Copy Quote
I don't think the concept of "directing actors" exists in the sense that if you get what you order from an actor you'll always get bad acting. Every actor is scared just like a regular person.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Acting
Order
Thinking
Copy Quote
I went to England when I was 13-years=old and then I went again when I was 14. When I went for the second time I felt like the first summer I was there it was a waste because I didn't exist yet.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Summer
Waste
Years
Copy Quote
As my films are born at the moment when they are reflected into another person's mind and memories, there are no misconceptions. I totally accept that different people have seen a different film.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Memories
Mind
People
Copy Quote
In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Actors
Long
Thinking
Copy Quote
I like to get something that is impossible to verbally order. Sometimes it's something the person is not even conscious of, and it's something you could never ask of them specifically. It's just there.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Impossible
Order
Sometimes
Copy Quote
If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Light
Safe
Talking
Copy Quote
We exaggerate the difference between documentary and fiction. I think that on some level a fiction film is also a documentary on the actors. You can't wash away your life's history, which is written on your face, unless you get a facelift.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Differences
Levels
Thinking
Copy Quote
When I make a documentary I shoot very little but I hang around with my camera for a long time. I look at the people for a long time through the loop and then when I see something interested then I shoot. I think that I have become very sensitive to these things.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Long
People
Thinking
Copy Quote
Being a female director become as professional as your male colleagues and forget the whole question about being female. You are female anyway and it is going to work in your favor. The scope of female professional superiority can be understood by so few men that mostly they do not miss it.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Men
Favors
Missing
Copy Quote
If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it has 2 million climaxes, which fill the whole 90 or 100 minutes. Then you realize you can't cut them out because if somebody is dying and you cut that out it seems like they just disappear from the film.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Cutting
Editing
Epic
Copy Quote
When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
Long
Play
Symphony
Copy Quote
I went to film school when I was 17, and of course when you are very young you think that there is nothing else in the world except film. At some point I started getting hungry to see something else. For five years I didn't make any films, I was traveling around the world, writing for newspapers, working in theater, working in opera, I thought I would never return to film.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
School
Thinking
Writing
Copy Quote
This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people in front of the camera. There has to be trust between the one who is behind the camera and the people on the other side, so that they can relax. They have to feel they are safe, and that way they don't have to pretend just because they are scared.
Pirjo Honkasalo /
America
Crazy
People
Copy Quote

Related Authors

Mother Teresa
Saint
Friday, Aug 26, 1910
Friday, Sep 05, 1997
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Thursday, Jul 30, 1863
Monday, Apr 07, 1947
John Muir
Author
Saturday, Apr 21, 1838
Thursday, Dec 24, 1914
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist
Tuesday, Jan 15, 1929
Thursday, Apr 04, 1968
Billy Graham
Evangelist
Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician
Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
Monday, Dec 20, 1993
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Monday, Oct 16, 1854
Friday, Nov 30, 1900
Pope Francis
Thursday, Dec 17, 1936
Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971
Dr. Seuss
Writer
Wednesday, Mar 02, 1904
Tuesday, Sep 24, 1991
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Friday, Jul 21, 1899
Sunday, Jul 02, 1961
John Locke
Philosopher
Sunday, Aug 29, 1632
Tuesday, Oct 28, 1704
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
Friday, Nov 09, 1934
Friday, Dec 20, 1996
Theodore Roosevelt
26Th U.s. President
Wednesday, Oct 27, 1858
Monday, Jan 06, 1919
Ronald Reagan
40Th US President
Monday, Feb 06, 1911
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004

View All Quotes

Top Authors

Mother Teresa
Saint
Friday, Aug 26, 1910
Friday, Sep 05, 1997
Henry Ford
Industrialist
Thursday, Jul 30, 1863
Monday, Apr 07, 1947
John Muir
Author
Saturday, Apr 21, 1838
Thursday, Dec 24, 1914
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Activist
Tuesday, Jan 15, 1929
Thursday, Apr 04, 1968
Billy Graham
Evangelist
Thursday, Nov 07, 1918
W. Edwards Deming
Statistician
Sunday, Oct 14, 1900
Monday, Dec 20, 1993
Oscar Wilde
Writer
Monday, Oct 16, 1854
Friday, Nov 30, 1900
Pope Francis
Thursday, Dec 17, 1936
Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971
Dr. Seuss
Writer
Wednesday, Mar 02, 1904
Tuesday, Sep 24, 1991
Ernest Hemingway
Author
Friday, Jul 21, 1899
Sunday, Jul 02, 1961
John Locke
Philosopher
Sunday, Aug 29, 1632
Tuesday, Oct 28, 1704
Carl Sagan
Astronomer
Friday, Nov 09, 1934
Friday, Dec 20, 1996
Theodore Roosevelt
26Th U.s. President
Wednesday, Oct 27, 1858
Monday, Jan 06, 1919
Ronald Reagan
40Th US President
Monday, Feb 06, 1911
Saturday, Jun 05, 2004

View All Authors

Pirjo Honkasalo Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page