Quotes About Filmmaking

Fazer filmes é uma experiência fantástica, mas os pormenores técnicos são mortalmente enfadonhos. É uma chatice salpicada de momentos vibrantes.

One of my favorite things about Telluride is because it's so small, the directors are really there for each other. You look at another director, and they feel the same thing you feel.

When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

I will definitely direct feature films one day.

I want to direct a feature film. Horror is my main genre.

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

I feel that if you want to make films, you have to be willing to make it without a fee. You get a deferment, I guess.

As a filmmaker when you show your film to anybody, you want it to be liked. You want the reviews to be positive. After watching your film, you want people to feel good.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

I don't set out to make a film for festivals abroad.

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

M. Night Shyamalan can draw quite a few people to quite a few things, and having the opportunity to work with him is very cool.

I can't remember who said, 'No film is completed, just abandoned,' but I think most filmmakers will tell you that they could endlessly fiddle with their films for the next couple of decades, you know, changing things, altering things.

I started off making backyard movies. I think it began in fifth grade - I'd get the friends together and we'd make little home movies. I always wanted to make movies but I didn't know how. It was always something really fun to do.

You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

And it's just my opinion that I don't think film school is necessary for filmmakers. But I don't want to discourage someone who really wants to learn that way.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

After film school, I would write 8 hours a day on film and 8 hours a night on TV, and then sleep once and a while.