George Clooney Quotes

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

I love directing, It means so much to me to direct stories about subject matter that I care deeply about. I can act in many things, and you can try to experience different characters, but to direct is years of your life and you have to really love it and believe in it.

Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that.

I had a whole new respect for directors.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

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.

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

Film is a living, breathing thing. It's very delicate, and you have to listen and watch for what it tells you.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.