Leigh Whannell Quotes

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

As far as lighting and blocking, camera angles and facial expressions, all that stuff that has to be very specific in film, as opposed to in wrestling where everything is larger than life and you're performing to the masses.

I like to shoot feature films because it's about capturing emotions... words like guilt, hurt, betrayal.

Directing is a tremendous art.

Film is a very intimate medium.

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.

It's a director's job to tell a story and he's very well versed in telling stories with a bit of comedy in them and keeping the pace of the movie right and that's exactly what he did. He was observant of a world he didn't understand but he told a wonderful story.

I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere else: they can bring a picture to life, give it a natural and historical context and make you feel that everything else is suddenly credible.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

The challenge of film is making it right there at that moment, and then you get to move on.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

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 have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

Everything a director does must help the story and the performances. Otherwise, it is useless.

I've storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.

I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn't.