Mackenzie Crook Quotes

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.

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

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

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

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.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

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

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

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

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

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

I'm interested in films, in directing.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

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

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I really love diving in, head first, with directing and not having to worry about hair, makeup or lines.

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.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

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.