Quotes About Filmmaking

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

It is important to know that what I do is not artistic. I am just a film-maker. I live how I live and I do what I do, which is recording moments of my life as I move ahead. And I do it because I am compelled to. Necessity, not artistry, is the true line you can follow in my life and work.

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

I have been working on one film at a time. One film recovers a little cost and that helps me move on to the next one.

Most filmmakers give me the reference of my own songs; doing the same thing over and over again doesn't push you to do better.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

Some filmmakers make films to please themselves and a handful of critics, so they get 5-star reviews but their films don't run at the box office. I make films for the masses.

As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

I'm much happier behind the camera.

Making movies is hard for me. Being on set is very trying. I'm not good at being that communicative for that long. Editing is where I'm happiest.

Basically, I had a hard time getting anyone to want to make any of the features that I had written.

Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it's harder and harder to make them.

I'm not the best filmmaker, but on the sets, it seems like everybody is having fun.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.

I've never heard of a comedy that hasn't had reshoots, especially for the ending of a movie in a comedy.

I hope I can become a good enough filmmaker where I can take a script that I'm not 'heart and soul' into, but I could still make something really great out of it.

I love to watch entertaining films with larger than life characters and hence enjoy making such kind of movies.

I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.

I want to highlight this, that to make meaningful cinema, we really need an enabling environment and freedom to express.

It's such a marathon making a film - two-and-a-half years, at least - and every day, you do something that in any other lifetime would be one of the highlights of your life.

Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a day, without exception, where they just can't do it anymore, they don't know what to say to their cameraman, their cast. It's the sign of real, physical exhaustion.

I'm not good at anything else. I just don't have a talent for anything other than filmmaking. Luckily, it's worked out.

I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.