Weyes Blood Quotes

When I was around 12 or so, I saw 'The Shining.' I just remember that being a turning point for me, where I started to think about the fact that there was a hand behind the film. That it wasn't just this magical story being told - there were actual people crafting these films, and they were works of art.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

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 just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

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.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

Films like 'Velvet Goldmine' are an accumulation of research and references. I create an almost random resource of connections and am constantly distilling that into narrative specifics.

It could be sci-fi, love story, historical drama what counts for me is the fact that they're made by great directors with a great point of view who bring the audience to be elevated and at the same time entertained. That's what cinema is.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

Lynne Ramsay's 'Ratcatcher' blew me away when it came out. When I started making short films, I would watch that film over and over again, marvelling at how that story visually unfolded.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

I think of myself as a cultural filmmaker.

I would say that all my films have more content than a 'content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.