Erin Way Quotes

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

The more I make films, the more I feel less inclined to talk about them and just let people watch them. I feel that the pictures are telling the story, and I can't really add anything except just talking about the technicalities of what happened on the day.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

Cinema is a director's medium; it's his story and his vision. If it's a good story, people will connect to it.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that 'Silent Cargo' is getting out there for people to see.

You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.

Cinema is not just a medium of entertainment. Yes, it should entertain, but cinema is made to convey a message, to say something.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

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

We always set out to just make a great movie.

My films are like drinking a good beer, but pleasure doesn't mean that it cannot change someone's point of view.

As a filmmaker, I want to bring some value, some thought in the mind of my audience. When I embark on the journey of storytelling, I am an explorer.

I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.

I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience.

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.