Joseph Kosinski Quotes

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

If I get a note on my script or my films, what I say to a studio executive is that, 'You know, this is the film of my legacy, and I never want to be sitting in a theater looking up on the screen and seeing something that I don't believe in.' I will never do that.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended.

No film ever ends up exactly as you would like it to, but with minor exceptions, THX came out pretty much as I had visualized it, thanks to some excellent assistance -- and a whole lot of luck.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

When you're making a movie, you can't think anybody will ever see it. You've just got to make a movie for the values it has. The greatest films were made because someone really wanted to make them. And, hopefully, the audience will show up, too.

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

No matter where I am working, I cannot make a film without 100% creative control and final cut. If there is such a guarantee, I can work anywhere.

You become the movie you are making.

When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that, and feeling like I was losing control.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.

With a film, you try to keep your vision in it. I think with 'The American' and 'Control' I managed to do that.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.