Guillaume Canet Quotes

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I like making movies.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

It's great to have a good relationship with the directors and learn about things you do with cameras, and how you direct.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

Writing is fantasizing about what your film will be like. Shooting is reality. And the post-production is recovering the idea you had.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.