Theo James 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.

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

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

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

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

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

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.

It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.

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

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

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

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

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

Going to film school taught me how much I already knew, and that the best way to learn about film is being on the set with professionals.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.