Quotes About Filmmaking

If I was going to direct an episode of 'Younger', I wanted it to look like an episode of 'Younger.'

I wouldn't be making films if I just wanted to express some specific ideas; then I would be writing essays or something.

But I don't think as film-makers it is our responsibility that every time we make a film we should be saying something. If you are entertaining people, that's more than enough.

Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema is American Beauty and Magnolia.

I have always felt lonely in the world out there. That is why I escaped into filmmaking even though the feeling of community is an illusion.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.

Every once in a while, you are on the set and you look at it from the outside and you are like, "This is ridiculous."

I'm actually a huge fan of digital as well. I appreciate how that technology opens the doors for filmmakers who never had access to that level of quality before. However, I do think film itself sets the standard for quality. You can talk about range, light, sensitive, resolution -- there's something about film that is undeniably beautiful, undeniably organic and natural and real.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

There are so many talented filmmakers, but they find it difficult to put their content out to the viewer.

The need to look behind the curtain is great for a filmmaker. But whether you want to deconstruct what you like as a viewer, what you like and don't like, I wish we could let films stand on their own a little bit.

The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

We are absolutely open to working with outside directors. But the criteria for working with outside directors would be the script they have, the kind of vision they have.

Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.

In Europe, the director is the king: it's his vision. It's an auteur tradition.

It's really hard as a screenwriter, you feel like you have a vision and then you turn it over to a director and you have to let it go.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Bill Condon has made some excellent movies.

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.