Benh Zeitlin Quotes

I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I do my best not to have any expectations when I go into a movie because it's not fair.

My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.

I believe movies are better, the less you know going in.

I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's like, what the actors are like.

I don't watch movie trailers. I just go to the movie, and I don't know anything about it, because that's the only way I appreciate the movie fully.

I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.

Last summer when we were preparing for the movie, I actually kind of wanted to stay fairly uninformed about it. As we went through the process that we do in the movie, I wanted to be a little wide-eyed.

I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.

I just can't help but see things differently.

I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.

I don't know why people are so obsessed with finding out stuff before the movie comes out. It's so much more fun to just go. I mean, I don't do that. I don't go looking for stuff that I'm interested in, you know, to try and find out pictures and what the movie's about. It's so much more fun to be surprised.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

I quite like the element of surprise, and as much as I have my ideas, I always appreciate ideas that come from other people as well, and I love the mystery of not knowing.

As a viewer, I never want any movie ruined for me, no matter what the genre is.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.

Every single thing you do, you don't really have expectations.

I didn't have any expectations with 'Traveller' - I don't think anybody did. That's how I prefer the process to be.