Marshall Curry Quotes

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.

I'm a documentary filmmaker, I know what it means to craft a story, especially when you've shot a lot of material.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is the only man I see around who makes films because he thinks 'this is a story that needs to be told, so let's tell it.'

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.

I wouldn't take a directing job if I didn't think it was enriching life.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away papers all day. You're creating with human emotions, so you do become very connected, so it is familial and romantic.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.

The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.