Mike McCready Quotes

I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would like to explore, and then I find people that fit that idea.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

I always want everything I do to be somewhat cinematic. I don't want to be the rapper that'll just post up and shoot a video anywhere with no real meaning to it.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

Art is life's dream interpretation.

The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.

To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.

I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

I think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.

I never wanted to be a creative director.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

We're pretty insane about art direction.

When a director shifts gears as often as does Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, the man behind the emotionally rich debut film 'Amores Perros,' you may wonder if he knows what he wants.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

Film has its own innate poetry.

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's a form; 'Duch, Master of the Gates of Hell' is a different proposal.

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.