Quotes About Filmmaking

Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.

I am sure I am one of 2,000 film directors in the world that Tarantino admires.

First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

Stoller is one of my favorite comedic directors - one of my favorite directors that I've worked with to date.

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

There's a lot of directors who were actors, so they have the sensibility of an actor, which sometimes helps.

As a director, you never get to watch other directors work, and you also don't get to collaborate with other directors that much.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.

Before I discovered moviemaking, I hadn't found anything where I could kind of galvanize or meld all of the things that I wanted to do.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.

When you're working with a low budget, the most expensive time is the time spent on the set. The words of the day are, 'Get off the set as quickly as possible,' and so CG enables you to do that.

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

I love making cheap films. I really do. What I've found is that I work better when it's both a fairly low budget and a short schedule. It focuses the mind, and it's a better atmosphere.

I ended up falling in love with the whole movie-making experience.

The cinema I particularly love is the cinema of the golden age of the studios in the 1930s. One of the really nice things about it was the way teams of actors and directors and crew people worked together again and again.

The experience of shooting a film is about the script, the captain of the ship who is the director, and the way they push their actors and teams to give their best. It's not about the language and the region.

My attention is more on the technical process of filmmaking; I like to observe cinematography and direction.

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.