Dexter Fletcher Quotes

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm always searching for the truth in everything I do. I demand it from my writing partner and my crew, actors, and so hopefully, we're making people think.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

I want my movies to be audience experiences. As much as I like Michael Haneke, I'm not going to make a Haneke film. That's just not in my DNA.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.

As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.

I would watch films like 'Frances Ha' and 'The Squid and the Whale,' and wonder why we weren't making these beautiful slice-of-life movies. Then I thought, 'Why am I not doing it?'

Every director, when they make a film, their souls speak. The kind of stories they choose to make, it shows their souls.

Mohan Raja is an interesting filmmaker. He is constantly, if I may use the word, contradicting himself. He explains a scene, and then he will try to break that and rebuild it. That, to me, is filmmaking. Every scene is constructed after a lot of discussions.

I never control a film. The film controls me.

I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.

I like to work with people who want to make films because they are passionate about films and not because they want to sell films and make money. I am not for people who get the most saleable actor and then the most saleable director and sell the film.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is the only man I see around who makes films because he thinks 'this is a story that needs to be told, so let's tell it.'

There's really no difference between what I do and what a male filmmaker might do. I mean we all try to make our days, we all try to give the best performances we can, we try to make our budget, we try to make the best movie we possibly can.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I don't really see the point in making a film unless you can think of a good reason to do it.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.