David Benioff Quotes

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Directing a film is a lot of work.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

To make a film is eighteen months of your life. It's seven days a week. It's twenty hours a day.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Filmmaking is teamwork.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.