Wesley Morris Quotes

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.

I watched a film called 'Elephant' recently. Its not stylish in the sense of expensive suits and Italian cars, but the styling on every single character is spot on.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

In 'Beowulf,' director Robert Zemeckis uses a technique called 'motion capture' to conjure fantastical things, angles into action and sweeping vistas to stun your eyes and take your breath away. But what he hasn't mastered and what the technique can't do is this: emotion capture.

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.

I don't think 'Lootera' is slow paced; it's finely paced for its setting and story.

In 'Poster Boys,' every character is well defined.

I have only recently got interested in film, and it is a strange way of working in many ways. But actually, when it is at its best, it's quite an extraordinary way of working between a director and an actor, to really explore an inner life.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene, and I loved creating those, but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.

You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

I'm not a purist - I like films that are narrated and films that aren't, films that are beautiful and films that are clumsy but heartfelt. Mostly, I just like a good story and good characters.

I thought 'Dead Man's Shoes' was a masterpiece.

The stories that I like to tell and the movies I like are always grounded in the emotional arc of the characters.

One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

I loved 'About Schmidt'. I like Alexander Payne's work a lot.