Rob McClure Quotes

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

Eventually, when I got the 'Meadowland' script, I saw something in it that made me think I could make something special out of it, something that could work with my style. Emotionally, I connected to it. I thought, 'If I feel this way just imagining it, maybe we can make that happen on screen and make people feel something when they watch it.'

You can be moved by an animated film and not by a live action film. There could be great inspiration in and humanity in that animated story.

My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.

The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.

I don't really make movies with an intention other than asking myself, 'Do I love the character, and do I love the story?'

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

I don't make movies to make a point; I make movies to tell stories about people.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Always when you are doing films, the themes swallow you in one way or another.

I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.

I love films that make me react emotionally and physically when you walk out of the cinema. Two of my favorite films however have got to be 'The Tree Of Life' and 'The Piano Teacher,' which also stars one of my favourite actresses Isabelle Huppert.

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other media into cinema.

What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

I became an actress to provoke people and move people and to tell the stories.

I wanted to make people feel the same way I feel when I see a good movie.

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

It doesn't matter if it's black-and-white. If a movie has a story that is filled with emotion, you can have as much pleasure, and it's very good for cinema.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.