Donnie Yen Quotes

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

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

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

When you're directing, you see your ideas. You see them created right in front of you on the monitor and the sound stage. You get that experience all over again when you get into the editing room and you start playing with it.

When you're editing the film, you use a temp track. So you're putting music in there for a rough cut to keep track of what's going on. It can be a hindrance if wrong, it can be an enormous asset if you get it right.

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'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

I just spend my life studying the manufacture of sound and picture and my education, if you like, has come from what I've chosen to make sounds and pictures on.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

With Fever, the film was so made for the screen, and there's so much surround sound that was done for the film - enormous detail paid to that. I wasn't thinking video, because I didn't know how it was going to turn out.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.