John Hench Quotes

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I don't direct movies for a living.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I prefer working behind the camera.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

I like making movies.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.