Henry Selick Quotes

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

When we're shooting, I'm in producer mode.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

As long as you don't think about the whole big picture, producing 'Spider-Man' is a fantastic experience.

For me, I try as much as possible to just think about being in the movie theatre, having the lights dim, and what would I want to see on the screen. That puts me in the frame of mind that made me want to be in the movie business to begin with.

I know nothing about making a movie.

Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.

Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.

While shooting for 'Kodi' at Pollachi, I got this new idea for 'VIP 2'.

I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.

There are so many things that go into a movie that it's amazing that anything gets made anyway.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

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.

I love having made a movie.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

When you're working on a novel, you never think about how much it would cost to shoot one of your scenes. But that's a huge consideration in film and TV.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

I used to sit on the editing table to see where I may have gone wrong because after editing, only the good parts go on screen.

Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.