Marti Noxon Quotes

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

When I choose the scripts, all I look forward to is an impressive narration.

I've always believed that the script is the boss.

I have been in advertising and I know my craft well, but ultimately in cinema every scene has to matter, and that has to do with the writing.

You could make a film out of just about anything so long as there is a clear vision about the story.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Every film is a puzzle really, from an editorial point of view.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

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

What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

I like making movies.

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

Where film is infinitely superior to any other medium is emotion and story and character.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

The problem with trying to make a film good and have it work for an audience is the problem of trying to tell a story well. The shape or the color of it doesn't matter.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.