Bruce Jackson Quotes

I suppose making documentaries is like doing journalism on film.

I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.

The relationship between a director and an editor in documentaries is so important.

Mohan Raja is an interesting filmmaker. He is constantly, if I may use the word, contradicting himself. He explains a scene, and then he will try to break that and rebuild it. That, to me, is filmmaking. Every scene is constructed after a lot of discussions.

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

I always wanted to write movies that I'd direct. I didn't come at it from a writing standpoint more than a directing standpoint, except that growing up, I didn't have the opportunity to shoot as much as I did to write.

I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what's best in it and make it work. That's what it was like.

Along the way, a lot of filmmakers get rid of things that are messy or don't fit in some ways. To me, I want to work with serendipity and things we happened upon. That's our job, that's what the form demands.

I've been acting for many years now, and I find there's nothing I enjoy more than making films with my friends and people I like, who also are the funniest people around.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what's coming and working to set that up.

I genuinely try to make movies I'd want to go and see, movies that are a bit more challenging.

I'm working on a project called Lemons, produced by Killer Films. The director has a great perspective on character development.

Every film is a challenge. I always say that making a movie is like film school - you're always learning. But unlike most schools, you never get done with it. You never learn everything.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

I really enjoy talking to actors or filmmakers that enjoy that process of creating and how they go about doing it.

Most of the time I've worked with directors who write their own scripts. The story is more important to me than the part. The project of the film has always been more important to me.

To write, you have to know how to act and know about directing. To act, you also need to know how to write and direct.

I think moviemakers are dramatists.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

I miss directing. I see stories in images and music more so than in dialogue.