David Twohy Quotes

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

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

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.