Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

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

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.

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

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

Story is the primary factor any day. If I believe that a particular director would do justice to it, I will accept an offer.

Any story, any screenplay can only happen if the whole unit is professionally working towards it.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

I just love working with actors, and I love working with writers, working with designers. I feel that I am just a storyteller, and whether I am wearing the director hat or the playwright hat, it doesn't matter. And the rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic, and the best idea wins.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I want to work with anyone who's passionate about telling a story. I obviously have a list of people I really love, but it's a really long list.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.