Gemma Jones Quotes

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

I prefer working behind the camera.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

I had to spend a few years learning how to do movies. I wasn't really good at that. I was a theatre actor first and foremost. So I took my time learning that.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

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.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

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

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me.

I think everything within film and TV helps inform every other role, so it's definitely helped my acting, being on the other side of the camera, and it's just given me a whole new appreciation for how hard everybody in the crew works.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Film, for me, has been a process of learning on the job.

I like to direct for the big screen.

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

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I will say that 'Source Code' proved to be a very tricky film to shoot.