Rem Koolhaas Quotes

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

I think, unfortunately, everything is becoming about comfort, you know? A comfortable way to tell a story. The comfortable way, so that the audience will never be lost. A comfortable way to produce a film with green screens or without a lot of physical effort or losing control because of the weather or physical locations.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

In film, you can create the illusion of time and space. People speak; characters reveal their feelings. You can use music, which informs how you should be feeling, and it carries you to the right emotional space.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I recommend to any of you, that's always a good way to make a film: use the interesting bits.

I never went to a writing school, so 'The Wire' was my writing school.

In documentaries, the process is that you film a lot of things, and out of what you've shot, something organically reveals itself, and there's a discovery process.

The best thing as a director is being able to be part of the thing that's so cool about a TV show, like running a character arc over six episodes or multiple series.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

No matter what strategies you make, if you don't get the right script, everything is going to go down.

I consider myself more of a writer than I do a director.

A film carries six fine arts - it consists of architecture, painting, music, writing or literature, photography and performance. It's a conjecture of all these things and yet based on literature.

Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but in terms of my role in all of this and in terms of the gift that God has given me, I had to come to the conclusion that my strength is as a storyteller, creating the story.

When television gets in trouble is when it forgets that it all begins with the written word.

There's a real art to telling a story in two hours, and that will always be something that people are very, very interested in.

We all have great faith in the writing team that puts together 'Heroes.'

The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so coming to a book is more ready-made. You at least have the story that someone sorted out.

In films, I do programming I can never do in television. I have fun. Both mediums are content-led, but they are so diverse in their psychology that they cannot have a meeting point.

If the script is boring when I read it, I am sure it would be boring onscreen, too.

When you make feature films, you have a script, which is a bible. The final result should be as it was written down on paper. And in documentary, you can write whatever you want, but life brings you situations where you have to be fast thinking, fast moving.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.