Winona Ryder Quotes

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

I grew up loving films and making stupid movies with a good friend of mine, who now actually has a career in a really prominent special effects house, so he's still doing it. We just started messing around with a camera.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

The irony is that you can't use real rain to make movies.

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

Arachnophobia' was one of the first films I did major effects for.

But in the former, those movie sets that you've been on like that, even if they're huge movies and most of its being spent in special effects afterwards, I think that's the way that we're going.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

I'm a film geek man. I love toys. I love everything in filmmaking, so for me to just be around this technology is just so cool to watch it being used for the first time, some of the stuff.

At times, there are misunderstandings [during shooting]. Especially with green screen and not really knowing what it is that you're looking at, you really depend on the director to create that world for you.

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

There's a lot of directing within the stunt coordinator's job.

We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film.

When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

I did Phone Booth, and that was shot very, very quickly, but that was Joel Schumacher, who's shot so many movies that, if anybody can figure out how to do it in a couple of days, it's him.

I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the colour.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.