Brady Corbet Quotes

The filmmaker is really important to me: it could be their first film; it's not just about their reputation, but I have to really believe in them.

Susanne Bier's work I've always really enjoyed. She's just such a great filmmaker; she's very cool and very sexy - that always helps, too.

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 look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

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

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

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

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

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.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

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 love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

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.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Film is very condensed.

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

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

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

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.