Benedict Samuel Quotes

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

I kind of want to learn how to direct TV. It's interesting.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Film and television essentially feel the same when you're doing it, because it's the same technical approach.

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

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.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

As an adult, there are technical aspects of filmmaking you understand, like having to pick up a cup on the same line every time.

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.

I don't know much about making films or TV programs, but what's cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.