Tilda Swinton Quotes

I love making movies.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

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

I'm not prejudiced about what type of movies I'm in, what form they take or whether they're studio or independent. I just want to make films that are going to be good.

You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.

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.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

Maybe there should be less of a mystique around making movies. I just don't think that there's any real mystery there.

Since I began making movies, I've always looked for screenwriters instead of going through the long and painful process of writing.

There are lot of people I'd wanna work with, but Wes Anderson, I would just wanna sit down with the guy. If he would ever put me in one of his movies, that would be the end.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

I always knew the script was important, but I didn't realize how important until you get out there and just deal with the issues of putting a movie together. It's amazing that anything works, to be totally honest.

I'm the third generation of my family in the film business, and I grew up with a deep passion for movies. I made my own Super 8 films when I was a kid and always loved the editing process.

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

Making 'Pacific Rim' was a lot like what you imagined making movies would be like when you were 12.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

I am trying to make the kind of film that I would be happy to see.

There's so many people involved in making a film.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

Any story, any screenplay can only happen if the whole unit is professionally working towards it.

Make the film that you love. When you find a film that you love, every molecule of your being will be moving in the direction of making the best film you can possibly make. This should be your default mode of operation.

A lot of times, I'll resist the temptation to visually define a movie until, one, I really understand just what the movie's about, and two, until I start talking to my cinematographer.