James Bobin Quotes

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

Repetitiveness is one of the things that's most difficult to get away from in genre pictures, because people come specifically to see certain kinds of things but get disappointed if they're presented in the same way. So to try to find a new way to show old stuff is always the challenge.

I am definitely going to continue directing, but I am always going to try to explore new ways of making films. It really is possible to make films in different ways.

There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And the cardinal sin is dullness.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

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.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

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.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

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

I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.

The sensibility I brought to directing was similar to what I bring when I write.

Spike Lee is a master of tone, so basically, if he wants to do something, he should do it, and Imma listen.

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.