Conrad Hall Quotes

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

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.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

The necessity to conceptualise has to come very early on, and defining a vector of development for that film also at the beginning of the process will allow you much more freedom as you go along.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

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

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Directing is the best job going. I don't understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every level - emotional and practical and technical. It calls up on such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing. I just love the whole process.

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

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.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

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.

Every filmmaker has his own vision, and when they write a film or characters, they see certain people in those characters.

The idea of 'Roja' was with me for seven years before I made it.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

Directing is like guitar playing. That's a unique mind-set and talent, unto itself. I like the idea of putting everything together to make a great movie.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.