Quotes About Creative

We've always had a roadmap to feature filmmaking, and making a feature film could have been three or four years away for us. But crowdfunding helped us get there in a year, and it allowed us to take a much bigger step.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

I like how collaborative and cult-like filmmaking is. It's really family-oriented, tribe-oriented.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

Our ambition is to be the center of independent animation filmmaking; to be the bravest animation studio in the world.

I want to be an all round entertainer, I want to act, make films, make albums, do whatever I can.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

Showrunning is when you're the constant creative voice in the show. For a year-and-a-half, you are working on the scripts, you're fine-tuning them, you're the final say on the edit, the music and the cast.

When people finance a movie, they have their own ideas and have things they want to change.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

The stage gives you more control over your own work; in television, there's a distressing amount of communal writing. Unless it's your show, you have no control over that. You're at the mercy of whoever's running the show.

I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.

I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to overseas 'cause whoever comes on my sets, whether you're sweeping the floor or an actor, it doesn't matter who comes up with the ideas, it's a collaboration.

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.

We are trying to build a family image of wholesome movie entertainment.

Everyone needs an escape, whether that is through music or humor. My personal escape is through both of those things so I thought why not combine them? But not in a cringe way, I don't want to make parody songs. I just want my music to have a humorous edge to it.

There are a lot of writers who just want to do their own thing and avoid the rest of the Marvel Universe. But for me that was one of the things I loved about Marvel: that shared universe. So of course you would run into a mutant in Manhattan. You would run into another hero in Manhattan. For me, I figured why not? Why not have that fun?

Although we're all in this to make a living, why not make something to make an impact? One day, I'll make a horror film. I think I know what the audience wants.