Quotes About Filmmaking

Film-makers are greedy people - we want good stories and good subjects.

I make movies on the subjects that excite me.

I have a dormant director in me. I do think about subjects and films I want to make. I get pretty excited about them.

It's not easy to make films that one wants to because it is not easy to find a producer that fast for the subjects I want to make. They are not hot cakes in the market.

Every project that you write about or read about, it goes through years of hard work. We write a screenplay; we design. Then you submit those and the budget, and it's out of your hands.

What happens is you submit your script with an idea of what the budget might be, and the financier will offer you less than that. In order to do it for less, it means cutting out the art, usually.

Gerald's Game,' we could not have made it at a studio without substantive changes to the story.

I get really excited when I see filmmakers make something that is subtle and feels real. It is really tough to do right.

When I'm making a big movie, I miss and appreciate all the subtleties that come with making a smaller film that is more intimate, more personal.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

In a way, I managed to get the deepest things, the best things out of people. That's why I'm a filmmaker. If you don't have it in you, you'd better do something else.

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.

It's all about this abstract entity called the story. It's all about the best way to tell the story, and to make a movie about the issues that this story is about. Filmmaking is storytelling, for me.

I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.

I believe that independent film making is the last frontier of creative expression available. So I'm always willing to lend a helping hand to a young film maker who's just getting into the business.

[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. But that's part of the pleasure of doing it, pushing yourself in new directions.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

Most of filmmaking is common sense. If you stay on your toes and think about how to do a thing, it's right there.

Just so with the movie, which is why bad filmmaking can succeed. It is our nature to want to make sense of these events—we can't help it. The human mind would make sense of them even if they were a random juxtaposition.