Josh Radnor Quotes

Film is very condensed.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

I think films are bigger than structure.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

Film has to describe and show.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

I always say a film should be given breathing space.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

I like the opportunity to make films.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth: cinema is a place of transgression.

I really enjoy working on small films.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.