Luca Guadagnino Quotes

What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.

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

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

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

I wouldn't want to direct - I think that's a very different job. You have to be a very specific type of person to do that.

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 would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Being a director is almost like being another sort of character, but you're out of view.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

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.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

I don't have a director's mind.

I want to work with filmmakers who are really smart.

I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.