Kerry Washington Quotes

I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

I depend on good editors and a good director.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

Every film is a human encounter. It's people trying to collaborate and create something together.

Filmmaking is hard enough as it is. If you can find a group you love working with, it makes it just a little bit easier.

As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

Making a movie is like an accelerated version of growing up with someone. You spend so many hours a day with each other, and you're putting your heart into this same effort.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

One of those things that I like about TV is that if you get a group of people you like, you can work with these people for months at a time, and you can discover their strengths and weaknesses, and you can use those in the direction where you take the characters.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

One of my favorite things about 'Castle' is the fact our writers and producers are so collaborative. They allow us to bring in ideas, and they try to make them happen for us.

As far as the mechanics go, working with other people on received ideas was for me a very interesting technical problem. I can't say that any of my collaborations engaged my heart, but they engaged the craftsman in me.

Personally I'm very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors.

When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.

It's great, getting the scripts and working with somebody like Sam Esmail, who is such a great leader.