Rob Marshall Quotes

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

I don't make projects; I make films.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

When you're trying to make a film, you're trying to find a way to love your subject, and you want your audience to love your subject.

To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.

In my opinion, the motion picture is the greatest medium of expression ever invented. It embraces all the other arts. The films that have the greatest unity, the greatest overall strength, and give the most satisfaction to the viewer, have been those in which a guiding hand was imposed in every section of the film's many divisions.

When I went to Sundance for 'Afternoon Delight,' I came back feeling like I wanted to take my experience that I learned from directing and bring that into a series.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.