James Mangold Quotes

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

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.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

I always loved experimenting in film.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

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

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

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

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

You don't really think about 3D when you're acting. As a director, you do.

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.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

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

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.