Gene Tierney Quotes

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

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

I've always wanted to be behind the camera in some capacity.

I didn't know the technical language of filmmaking, so I said, 'OK, I'm going to do my own storyboard,' because I had to explain to the crew and the technical people what I wanted.

I made short films in school.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

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

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

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 had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

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.

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

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

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

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

My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I don't consider myself a very good talker or writer but a pretty good filmmaker.