Irvine Welsh Quotes

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

The thing I really love about film is there's a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

The creative process on 'Margaret' was incredibly satisfying. I loved the cast; I had a great time writing the script. I liked making the movie. Believe it or not, I actually like editing the movie. It was all the rest of it that was such a nightmare.

Filmmaking is teamwork.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are a collaboration. They're only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved.

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.