Gina Prince-Bythewood Quotes

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

As a director, my job is to spend money, and the producer's is to save money. Masoom, Bandit Queen and the first Queen Elizabeth have been my most uncompromised films.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

In TV, when you come in to direct an episode, you are effectively learning an established language; you then have to try to learn to speak it really well. But on a movie, you are the guy. You are creating the language; you make most of the decisions.

At Pixar, I don't have to compromise at all. When I look at the finished "Toy Story 3," I don't sit and constantly think, oh, the actor was having a bad day, or oh, it rained and we couldn't use that set. The story that I wanted to tell is what is on screen, and I haven't had to compromise it one iota.

For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

My colleagues and I have to constantly remind each other that we must keep our own view on the world while making films. With 'Chicken Run,' we learned how easy it is to be influenced by outside forces, but you mustn't lose the heart and soul of what you are doing.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

The director is the channel through which a motion picture reaches the screen.