Jeff Nichols Quotes

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

If you understand everything, you must be misinformed.

It gets harder and harder to make movies about human beings. These movies are like an endangered species. Everything is 'simplify, simplify' now. How many movies have sub-plots anymore?

Some filmmakers are great at making complex things and films with a lot of moving parts, and I'm just not that way.

This is the biggest trick of the sort of thing I write: creating fun, powerful stories with tons of interesting stuff going socially and culturally that doesn't overly confuse the reader.

I enjoy films like 'American Beauty' and want to do similar films that reflect our culture.

I've followed Mysskin sir's work, and I really like his style of filmmaking.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

I think, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention to what kind of movie you're making, what is the audience experiencing, and does this joke fit with this joke?

I've admired Lawrence master from his choreographer days. I love how he experiments and makes it work. I like his attention to detail and the intrigue in his movies.

RGV, as a filmmaker, is very smart.

The experience of watching great cinema - great art - is life enriching and spiritually uplifting no matter whether it's about as difficult as it gets, like 'Breaking the Waves,' or as light as it gets, like 'Jerry Maguire,' 'Election' or 'Toy Story.'

Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.

Certain things work on paper held together with staples. Comics use bright colors to make things leap off the page, but movies are a different medium.

My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

A lot of my favorite movies come from nuggets of truth.

I have realised there are so many stories which can be told beautifully on screen. It's important to be part of such films.

People say that my movies are violent. I do not think so.

If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.

A sad truth I learned as a DP starting out was that it doesn't matter how beautiful I make it if the story and performance are not there. That should be number one.

In 'Sanju,' there are too many colours. Some other filmmaker could have taken a dark side to that story.