Jeff Kinney Quotes

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

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.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

I've never directed, but it must be humbling.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

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

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.