Bill Condon Quotes

One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

In making films, you're dealing with hundreds of people and a crew, but eventually, it's you and an editor, and that part of it, I liked it a lot. The experience on 'Up in Smoke' was great. I really enjoyed it.

I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.

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

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.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

I think I have more of a director's brain than an actor's brain, in a way.

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

In film, I think that you do have a little more time to invest in the character compared to television, where you are shooting from the hip and making quick choices. It is the speed of things that is the major difference - certainly in my experience.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.

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

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

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!