Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

I honestly never wanted to direct. It was only when I started to work on 'Alexander the Great' that I realized I had to direct. I saw something so specifically in my mind, I could not leave it to someone else.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

It's the director's job to piece together my performance, his interpretation of my takes, each take, and string them together and make a statement. I'm red paint on a canvas for a painter.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

I'm well aware that I have put my actors in difficult positions because of my vision, but when they see I work for the betterment of the product, they understand the pain I put them through.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.

Directing is a tremendous art.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.

You become the movie you are making.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.