Vincent Kartheiser Quotes

The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I directed a short series for Hulu called 'Paloma,' and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting. It gave me a new bolt of energy in terms of my interest in filmmaking because it made me realize how collaborative filmmaking can be and also that you're not just limited to one job.

When I go to see a movie, I never think about all the people it took to make it.

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.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

On a film, you do your own work, you come together and meet on set, and then you shoot. It's great.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I've always wanted to make movies.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

In film, there's so many little things where not just the actor can blow his lines, but technically, it doesn't quite come off in the perfect way envisioned.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

The great thing about being a producer on a project is that you get to see the ins and outs of every piece of the puzzle. There are so many elements involved in every aspect of a film's development that I don't think the average person is aware of, which is, I guess, why the whole process is referred to as movie magic.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

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

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's the nice bit. And then comes for me the unpleasant bit when they all go off, 100 people - actors and camera people and film and sound - and I stay away. When they go into the editing room, I come in again, and that's the bit I like.

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