Beau Willimon Quotes

You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

When you're making a film, you have an obligation to fill the frame with life.

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

I think I've always wanted to direct, but I didn't go to film school. I was lucky enough to work in movies, and I think those became my film school in terms of acting and watching directors work and also writing and co-writing and producing.

If you're a documenter, you're taking a video of something in the real world you want to capture. If you're a director, you're trying to create something in the real world.

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.

There's more to directing than plotting scenes out.

By 1949 I knew all the studio tricks.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I always loved experimenting in film.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

Film, I think, is my medium.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I like to direct for the big screen.