Walter Matthau Quotes

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'm going to explore as well.

Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Now, learning how to make a movie is something you can figure out in about an afternoon. The physics of it, the marks, the lights, etc. What's hard to do is to suspend your own feelings of self consciousness. The natural actors can do that; they can become part of a characterization and learn how to maintain it.

The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

I do films in which I have an important character.

I respect Srikanth garu, I worked as an assistant director for his film 'Radha Gopalam.'

It takes two years to make a good film.

Before I film a movie, I look at how the character will move and walk.

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

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.

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.

Eventually one day I want to direct, but as of right now my next cap that I'm looking for is the producer cap.

You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting a big movie, and I got an 85 day shooting schedule or more, then I'm saying I have enough time to shoot option A and B and C and D for every scene.