Quotes About Vision

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

As a filmmaker, the only way that I understand how to make a film is holistically.

I'm not a writer, although, as a filmmaker, you are an author in a certain way.

I put more emphasis on filmmakers than maybe Hollywood does.

As a filmmaker, you just make the movie you want to make, and you sort of put your faith in the distributor to make sure the right people see it.

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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

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

In films, you have to follow the director's vision. Filmmaking is a director's medium. So everything happens as per the script and his vision.

When it comes to filmmaking - India or abroad, there are two approaches. First, when the director knows what he's making. Second, where he has an idea and explores that while making the film.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

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.

'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.

I always do very detailed demos. I feel that it's better to show the director a demo that sounds as close to the final thing as possible with samples. It takes time to create, but I feel that it's better to get the director on board very early on in terms of the sounds that I have in my head.

My final ambition is to turn director.

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

I do know where I'm going and it's just a matter of finding the language to get there.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I think there's not a lot of real filmmakers. There are only a few people who make real cinema. I can count them on my fingers.

There is no finish line to leadership.