Quotes About Perspective

I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up close.

I knew what I liked, but I was never really obsessed with filling my life with music.

I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and the adult world.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

I came to the conviction that film criticism, in and of itself, was an art.

I love film criticism as an art. I think it's a very important thing.

Many have asked me, 'Why have a film festival in the middle of a war?' But they have it backwards. The question is, 'Why have a war in the middle of a film festival?'

I don't really enjoy filming.

When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.

I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.

It's so hard to put your journey apart from the story line, when you've lived through it yourself or know what's a spoiler and what's not, especially when I wasn't a fan of 'The Witcher' before I started filming.

You have to spend four hours filming a 30-minute program. That seems mental to me.

I think of myself as young, but I was 23 when we were filming. Diana was 19; 16 at the start.

It's cruel to compare two actors working with two different filmmakers on two different characters.

Me, as a moviegoer, before being a filmmaker, I try to think about what movie I would like to see.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.

I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use 12 setups. I'm in awe of people like that; I'm just not that guy.

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

I don't necessarily see myself as an experienced filmmaker just because I've been in a few movies.

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

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 big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.