Suki Waterhouse Quotes

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Action to me is something very fun to shoot.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

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

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

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.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

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.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

When you work on a movie, especially an independent movie, it's a lot of work to make it! It's not just our job as actors - so many people are working so hard, and even the littlest movie takes a lot of work.

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

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

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.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

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 film quite a bit of footage, then edit. Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

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