Elden Henson Quotes

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

We try our best every time to make engaging films that we're interested in, and we just hope the rest of the world likes them.

Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making something bad. We always go out with the best of intentions, whether it's fluffy comedy or a drama.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film - I shouldn't say 'nobody.' Some people certainly don't care.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

In the best of all possible worlds, directors would obsess about the quality of their storytelling, and not the details of their technical methods.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

My point was that it's hard to make good films, but I'm not under any illusion that you do all the time.

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

Sure, you always put some of your own experience into a film.