Gene Wilder Quotes

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

I've made some films that were very much image based: 'Anna Karenina' and 'Pan,' for instance.

I'll say this: I think from a directing standpoint, 'Loving' is my most accomplished film. Strictly from a technical, directing point of view.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

As a director, I start with the visual.

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.

Directing is a tremendous art.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.

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 have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.