Orson Welles Quotes

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos.

We are not documentarians, we are filmmakers.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I'm always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren't always in a script.

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

If I have to point to something specific with the way I move my camera, I love to do it with a wide lens. I like to show you as much of the space as I can, even if I'm following a character.

Good directing is good writing and good casting.

You can't really show people you can direct until you show them that you can direct.

Alex Zamm is probably the most talented director I've ever worked with. He is so good at working with actors and crew and setting up his shots.

I will always endeavour to bring out the best films.