Quotes About Filmmaking

I don't make my living writing; I make my living as a producer and as a director.

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of the way and support the director one hundred percent.

On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all.

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.

'Sicario' was successful, but it was successful because Denis and the producers were, you know, they were very lean. It was very lean filmmaking.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

Directing, writing, producing and starring is just too tough.

When I'm making a film, I don't want my producer to be on the sets. So when I'm producing a film, I don't want to be on the sets!

I always say, 'I love producing, but directing is my passion,' and for a while, I had to produce to support my directing habit.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Producing small films, you usually have four or five people you want, and you hope one of them will say they'll do it.

Be it acting, writing, directing or producing, I love cinema. I love the art of telling stories and I'm happy doing one of the above or all of the above.

I am a creative person, and knew my bigger picture would be writing, directing, and producing; that's what I've always thought I would get to one day.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

If women choose guerilla style filmmaking or new media productions, etc., all power to them. But if they're there because 'Big Hollywood' won't let them in, then we're moving further and further away from equality.

Louisiana has a storied history in filmmaking, with one of the world's most diverse settings for cinematic and television productions.

If you're a filmmaker, and every time you finish a film, you just naturally go, 'Oh, I could have done so much better,' that's not much fun, is it, really? You might as well go pick another profession if that really is how you derive satisfaction from it.

I'll lie awake and think about scenes I could have done better, that I could have filmed in a different way.

Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways.

There are filmmakers who get lucky with the first film itself, and then there are some of us who have to face difficulties.