"Well, at bottom film's greatest enemy is the studio. I only use it when I have no other alternative. But as soon as I'm inside its enormous machine, I'm coerced to dress in a certain way...wear this pair of pants, that shirt, etc. The film uniform in other words. Then the great parade of machinery and technology begins. It's essential to assume the right attitude. Which means I have to start being intelligent, [taking] a closer look at the street." - Roberto Rosellini
Douchet, Jean, Cedric Anger, and Robert Bononno. French New Wave. Zzdap Publishing, 1999. pg. 120
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I suppose that within the cinema culture, the independent filmmaker exists to counter the studio filmmaker, not the other way around. If this is the case, if every filmmaker who reviles the studio system uses this disgust to notice the world more intimately and subjectively, the studio system should simply exist to create rebels.
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