Roy Conli Quotes

The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

I'm learning about filming, and just conceptualizing as well. I think it's a good artistic inroad, even to music as well.

I think great filmmakers will always talk in terms of storytelling. These guys were always about the story. That is how I love to talk about a film.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

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 really got into filmmaking through photography.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

There is some pleasure in doing a movie and problem solving on a specific movie and getting a movie made, but once they are done, we don't look at them again, much less relate one to another.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I've tried to get the overall in. I think that's more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.

Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

As a storyteller, I think where working in television can almost be like lifting weights - you really have to know what your story is about.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

From film to film, even documentaries, I was learning the medium and learning how to bring form into some kind of relationship with the content, how to work it, and above all, how to create some kind of order out of chaos.

I was just trying to make a nice little movie... It wasn't until I saw it all put together that I realized this was something remarkable.

It's amazing how everyone has their different ways of working. I like hearing about that process, reading about it. I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one. There is always something I gain from watching a movie, whether it's a silly romantic comedy or an art film.

I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.