Jon Watts Quotes

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I love film - it's like painting.

Film has always been where my heart is.

When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.

Cinema is about transferring thought into action.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

I like to give dimension to shots inside action scenes. It's demanding because you have to rehearse a lot of things happening at the same time and frame all those things in a shot. But I feel like when you accomplish that then you've got a cool action scene.

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.

Cinema is incredibly concise.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

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

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

I love film, and I love short films.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

Craftsmanship and logic is key to any movie-making.

I'm not the best filmmaker, but on the sets, it seems like everybody is having fun.