Jason Silva Quotes

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

Cinema is my religion. It is a way to make people sensitive, through emotions. To make them feel, experience empathy. People are touched and act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

Film is the best way to capture an image and project that image. It just is, hands down.

A lifetime isn't long enough to learn how to make films.

If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story. But if I sing a line that's plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story. Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It's open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

Cinema is far too rich and capable a medium to be merely left to the storytellers.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience, and a little love, we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

Film is very much about capturing the essence of things - if you feel it, and you've got the right person shooting it, it'll come across. Theater's a different animal; it's physically different and requires a different discipline. In the theater, you're mining the same material, constantly honing the same thing, executing it and keeping it alive and fresh.

I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

The best education in film is to make one

There are many ingredients that go into making a film. It baffles me, what works and what doesn't.

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth.

I think film was my passion without it being declared like a job that I could have, or a career that I could have.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

I'm addicted to directing!

Anything I've not experienced I do not look to for a subject. I have to feel it.

In film and television you have to be able to see the whole picture in a different way than you do on the stage because you shoot out of order and you're working with technology.