Joseph Gatt Quotes

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

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

It is a challenge to direct any film.

I thought I could handle 'Nenu Local' well and make the romance seem cute than annoying, and going by some of the feedback, I think I managed it.

Directing films is easier said than done. The job needs a lot of sensibility to put many things in place.

I think with any movie, directing is more in the preparation. You just have to prepare for everything that's going to happen.

Most of music videos were short films - they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

Hitchcock loved long convoluted shots that contained a lot of tracking and camera moves.

I won the Oscar for 'Raging Bull' for those fight sequences. If you look at those fight sequences, those were so incredibly storyboarded and shot in an incredible way - that is the conception a good director has to bring.

Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.

As a director, I start with the visual.

Jason Reitman is an amazing director; he's really amazing with his actors and crew.

I knew exactly what I wanted out of my actors - the film stars Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha in lead roles - and how each shot should look. A large part of 'Lootera' has been shot under tough conditions.

I think I had my answers to the questions in 'The Witch,' and I had my answers to the questions in 'The Lighthouse;' I need those in order to write and direct them.

A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.

I travel light as a director. I don't have monitors on my set.

Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.

Rehearsing is more about blocking in the case of movies, I think, and blocking, of course, is very important to the beauty of a scene.

I want to direct a feature film. Horror is my main genre.

If films could run because of performances, everybody's films would do well. It is the director who makes the film.

I want to start really developing more on the film side.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.