Whit Stillman Quotes

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film.

I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I've always wanted to direct.

When I started trying to become a director, I started shooting low budget short films, 50-dollar music videos, making my own stuff. That eventually led to commercials.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

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

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

Short films really helped me develop as a story teller, animator, and as a director.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

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

You can do a short film in three to four days, and then you can show it. Look at the careers you seen go either through Tropfest or outside of Tropfest. You can make a short film in a couple of days, and if it's great, it can go in the Internet or go to a film festival like this one or another.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.