Grace Poe Quotes

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

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

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.

I love directing.

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.