Quotes About Filmmaking

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'

We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.

We were fortunate enough to shoot 'Alps' - write the script and shoot it - right after 'Dogtooth' premiered in Cannes. So we didn't just sit around and wait to figure out what to do because 'Dogtooth' was successful. We just wanted to make another film fast, so we just went ahead and did it.

I would love to direct films and it's certainly on the cards.

'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.'

We are such big John Carpenter fans.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

Our vision is to break the projects into stories that must be told, stories that we would like to tell and stories that people go to movies for. If we can find great scripts that fit these three categories, we will go out and make a movie.

Ashwini Chowdhary is a very sensitive director. I could give myself 100 per cent to him.

For filmmakers that want to have certain control, there are certain things you can't do in VR.

There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.

So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested.

I literally said it was my dream in life to direct a Charlie Kaufman movie.

Nobody loses money on my movies. I make them cheap.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

I think Chris Weitz is an amazing director, and his sensibility - I wouldn't even know how to articulate it - it's just, he's a very sensitive, interesting guy.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

Chris Nolan went through Slamdance a year and a half after us, and he went on to direct 'The Dark Knight.' So the joke now is if you want to make superhero movies, that's where you have to go.

Suresh Krissna and Mani Ratnam are the ones who made me a superstar.

After I read the story of 'Dangal' and before the film released, I called director Nitish Tiwari asking him if he had any good script. He told me to wait for some time. So we had three-four sittings, and this film, 'Chhichhore,' came to him. The film did not have superstars, but I felt that this is the script that needs to be told.