Hiro Murai Quotes

I'm much happier behind the camera.

I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' was on the stage. It's great being part of the creative process. You're right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through till the end.

The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a 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.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

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

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

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

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

Things develop in front of my camera, and then I will try to do the best out of it. I am close, but in most of the scenes, I am trying not to be seen. I think that's the trick. I think it starts in your heart, goes to the head, and the head puts it into the finger.

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.