Oren Peli Quotes

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

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

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

I've worked on movies where there's all these people coming and going, and I don't even know who they are.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

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 physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

I do like the whole idea of going to a location to shoot a movie, and there is a start date and a finish date, and a lot of special things happen within those weeks.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.

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.

The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

Making a movie is a little bit like high school. Because everybody lives together, and you see each other every day, and word travels fast around there.

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.

For me, every film is like the first picture. I am very choosy with the director and producer.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

Making a film is a very difficult thing to do, but the experience of 'Best F(r)iends' is a great memory.

It's good to work with a writer-director.