David R. Ellis Quotes

Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.

I fell in love with the whole process of making a movie. I loved the sets. I loved watching the actors and the crew.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.

I love directing, and I will direct myself a few times.

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

Scale is not just something that a director wants so as to play with all the toys. Scale also lends verisimilitude, to put together a real world.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

My dream role is actually behind the camera. I want to direct.

I have to say that whatever decisions I make, I really do think that movie making is a director's medium. They are the people that ultimately shape the film, and a director can take great material and turn it into garbage if they are not capable of making a good movie.

There is so much I'd love to do in this industry. I'm honestly interested in directing even a little more so than acting.

I like swimming. I like the beach. I like fast cars. I like speedboats.

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

I like to work in cinema everywhere.

Whatever understanding I have of filmmaking is because of my stint as an assistant director on 'Gangs of Wasseypur.'

I took my time to learn the craft and procedure. I wanted to do some substantial work first in cinema.

You have to have a great director to make a great movie.

Whether you make an action blockbuster or a comedy or a drama, you've got the right camera and all the right technology to do it. In games, it's not the same yet, and I would like to see technologies dealing with cameras the way we do - dealing with bouquet, dealing with performance capture, with lighting - with all this stuff the way we do.

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.

The production scale of 'Okja,' which I had never experienced before, was jaw-dropping. Not only the actors but also all the staff were experts in their fields.

I've got a quad bike, which I've raced against neighbours. You could give me a go-kart with a lawnmower engine - I'd still have fun. I like jet skis, speedboats, all the boys' toys.

Every big-budget film is powered by a director's vision. I blindly follow the instructions of my director, believe in him, and deliver what he exactly wants from me.

My final ambition is to turn director.

If you go into a studio without a set effectively, you've got a blue screen. As a DP you have to light it of what you think it should look like. You don't have any reference of what the background looks like. You might have some concepts, but effectively you're lighting it as what you think it should look like.