Rodrigo Santoro Quotes

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

The process of doing a play is an organic one, and the process of doing a film is totally inorganic.

The whole process of filmmaking can be chaotic, but if you can have an enthusiastic cast, you're pretty much there.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I appreciate film actors who respect the film making process.

That's the only way to do it. Just like an actor. You can get a great performance if you do a bunch of takes and edit it. You find the moments and string them together.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

When you are acting, you are just one piece of the puzzle. You don't see how everything fits together. It feels like you have less authorship over the entire product. In directing, you take the entire picture into account, so you're challenged in a different way.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

I know nothing about making a movie.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

I love having made a movie.

At the end of the day, it is about what you are doing in the film.

I love being on a movie set.

Once I sign up for a film, I just go by the director's instructions.

People need to understand that whatever they see us saying on screen, we are not doing it on our own.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.