Edward Burtynsky Quotes

When you watch my films, you're feeling my heart.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

I didn't want people to sit there and watch 10 minutes of film, and all they write about is 48 frames.

TV is art. It's mass art. It's accessible to the masses.

I love theatre because of the audience. It feels risky. But I love film because it travels to the whole world. To an audience I don't see.

I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the result will be great.

No film should be meaningless.

I truly believe in cinema's potential for cultural impact. I have a clear idea what I want to do - to enrich people's lives.

The stereoscopic panoramic videos that we're showing on Samsung VR are getting a lot of positive traction. It's exciting when you see creative types - whether from the music, film, or video industries - look at this stuff. The gears are turning in their head almost immediately about how they can use it as a new medium.

There's no set like a Ryan Murphy set, mainly because it feels like he's built an entire world. He's so thoughtful and meticulous, and every detail is thought about and cared for.

There's more than one way to do TV just like there's more than one way to do widescreen movies.

I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.

I don't want to do a history lesson. I don't think cinema should be about that. Cinema should be about emotions.

Well, I consider myself as much as a filmmaker as a moviegoer.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

There is no good or bad cinema, there are films that connect either less or more with audience.

I would say my favorite is probably the 'Colder' video. Just because that sort of brings the album artwork to life. It's not my favorite song on the album, but visually, I think it just came out exactly how I had it in my head.

Director Aji John has a style of filmmaking that will surely appeal to all.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

People see my films, and they cheer and they clap, and they are the kind of movies I like to see myself.

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

The whole purpose of filmmaking is to entertain the viewers and when it happens, it gives you a high.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

I know that I put a lot into 'Hereditary', and I'm proud of what it is. Beyond the fact that the film takes its time and asks for a certain amount of patience from the audience - and I hope it rewards that patience by the end - I know that I'm something of an aesthete. I care about aesthetics, and I love filmmaking.

I think the audience will be pleasantly surprised to see what I have attempted with 'Dolly Ki Doli.' I am confident that this movie will be accepted.