Don Ameche Quotes

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying.

I had a pretty steep learning curve in film - as I'm still learning.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, '90% of the job is casting,' so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that's really it.

As a director, I start with the visual.

Directing is a tremendous art.

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

When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

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.

I'm always inspired by other filmmakers, whether it's a shot or the way they handle tone.

When you make a movie, you do it so piecemeal. You're doing it, not only scene by scene, out of order, but shot by shot, line by line. And there's this idea that the director has the whole thing in his or her head and they're going to somehow weave it all together in the end.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

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

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

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

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.