Tony Jaa Quotes

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

I'm not being naive; I realise there's no such thing as a pure reading. But I'd rather keep myself as far out of it as I can.

Just going along with this, what I did, or what I do is I imagine not being myself seeing it, but imagine somebody else who's seeing it for the first time.

You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed.

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

With Kubrick and most film directors, they are in complete control, but one can influence them.

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.

In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.

When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of readymades is always based on visual indifference and, at the same time, on the total absence of good or bad taste.

In the midst of events there is no perspective.

When you are in every scene of a movie - which I must say I really much prefer - you have more control over the film that you're making. Because the choices you make as an actor can't help but change what the movie is saying.

I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.

I never take anything personally when it doesn't concern me.

In this business, you can't get too attached to something.

You can't play someone and judge them at the same time.