Quotes About Process

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Feature filmmaking is a different kind of complication as documentary comes in the editing room.

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

I certainly hope they let me make another 'Doctor Strange.' I would do it in a second. I love this character. It's been the best filmmaking experience of my career; I work really well with these guys. It was a rewarding, collaborative process that I would do again in a second.

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

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.

It's been a dream to work alongside the talented team at Lucasfilm and ILM to make advancements and improvements to the filmmaking process to help tell stories more efficiently.

I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.

If you worry about what's going to end up in the final cut, it's like you're thinking about the endgame.

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

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

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

The casting process for 'Hate Mail' just got so difficult. Once you lock in one person and then you try to find the next person, you lose the first person and then the financing falls away.

It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship.