Peter Krause Quotes

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

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.

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

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

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

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.

Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

Making a film is a challenge.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

Filmmaking is teamwork.

The writer is just so much more intimately involved in the television process than the feature film process.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Movies are in a much longer production conversation before an actor is even involved. I always thought of actors as the last piece of the puzzle - so you're a tool.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

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.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

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.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.