Quotes About Film

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

Working on a film is different from working in an office. You spend 16-hour days together; you share stories and become really close. But, when you finish shooting, you don't see each other again.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

If I make a film like 'Better Luck Tomorrow' or 'Finishing the Game,' I'll protect it with everything I have.

TV, particularly network television, gives you a much greater opportunity to tell a long-form story, to develop a character and keep it detailed. Film, by its nature, is more finite.

I did learn a lot from 'Things We Lost in the Fire,' but I've learned different things from different films.

I was going to direct the movie 'Training Day', and I got fired. Denzel Washington didn't want me to direct the movie.

My first job was an AFI short film, 'Chasing Daylight,' when I was 11, and I made a couple of commercials that never aired.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

I started as a documentary maker, and they're my first love.

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.

A sequel is such a daunting thing, because you don't want to lose the magic and the charm of the first one.

As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.

I did my first film Junglee and it became a hit. That film was the first one to bring the real colour on the big screen, which was Eastmancolor.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

Blacks are tired of seeing whites saying, 'I understand you.' You need a black to direct a black film.

People keep saying Balachander discovered me. I differ. He invented me. When a stalwart like him suggests that I act in films, who am I to refuse?

Even in 'The OA,' we had to follow Guild requirements and put 'directed by' and the credits, and I'm embarrassed to put my name every time. I mean, who cares. Look it up on the Internet if you want to know who made it.

It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.

The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?