F. Gary Gray Quotes

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.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.

I'm not educated as a filmmaker, so it's quite a jump for me.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

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

In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

My primary passion is film-making. That's the aspect of my life that defines me, completes me, and completely grounds me. Everything else - from judging a reality TV show to hosting a talk show - is just a result of me being a film-maker. I am the happiest, satisfied and at peace when I am behind the camera.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

Film is a machine: you never stop.

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

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

Filmmaking is a thousand choices a day, and it's important to just let those choices potentially be informed by something deeper.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Technically, maybe I learned most of all from George Stevens, and among his movies I learned the most from 'A Place in the Sun.' It's a lesson in moviemaking.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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.