Saul Bass Quotes

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

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.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

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

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

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

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

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

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

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.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

I've always been interested in directing, writing, and producing, so when I went behind the scenes, it was like a whole new world that I got to experience.