On directing > Find your Own Way | Béla Tarr, 2019

Béla Tarr, 1955-2026

“Go and shoot something with your phone and find your own way and that’s all. Who cares? Fuck off this shitty film industry. Fuck all those guys. Fuck off the market. Because now you have a different way and the technology is different. Everything is different. You don’t need money now to do the perfect movie. Let’s say “perfect motion picture.” For me, this digital stuff is not the film. It is a motion picture, but different. You can express yourself. You can express your emotions. You can say everything.”

Béla Tarr
Interview with The Film Stage on February 27, 2019, at the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival). The interview took place as he was presenting a new 4K restoration of his 1994 masterpiece, Sátántangó.