Shane Carruth Quotes

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

I love having made a movie.

There's so much standing around and waiting with moviemaking!

I'm doing a music video for a group called 'Die Antwoord.' That's fun, but yeah, I'm trying to get a live-action film off the ground, and that could take anywhere from a few months to the rest of my life.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

It's not rocket science to make 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.

I've directed independent film.

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.

We love doing commercial and TV show work.

I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

There are so many details in a movie that it's amazing how much work you'll do to change what adds up to not that much material.

I'm a commercial filmmaker.

You can really shoot things you think might work on camera one way, then you can try it that way, and then if you think it could also work another way, you have that luxury of shooting a bunch of different steps, and then they can decide in editing what works the best.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

I would come home after school and begin to create videos, because there was people waiting to see new content from me.

I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

I don't have much patience as I really like to work a lot and it is really hard to work a lot in movies because you have to have patience - every movie is a huge test of patience.

People sometimes think that a video pops out of my head with no more work than extracting a booger. Every video is a challenge (an exciting one, sure, but a challenge.) Every collaboration is complicated.