Eric Bana Quotes

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.

I love directing because you get to see your film come to life. You get to work with the actors. There's something magical about each piece of it.

When I was on set I tried not to bug Steven Soderbergh too much. "Why did you put the camera there?" But he was very open to my questions and definitely being on his set was really thrilling because he's such a master.

It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Definitely as an actor, the experience you have, at least I'm talking for me, my experience as an actor is you go to the set and know what you're going to do, know your lines, you rehearse, you do your scene, you go back home. As a producer, for the first time I saw the whole picture in a completely different way.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.