Matthew Weiner Quotes

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I like to produce my own movies.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

Ultimately, I am very filmmaker oriented, as a producer.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

When you do a movie, you shoot, and then you go away. A lot of the times you walk about from the movie, you say, 'Oh, I get that scene now... Oh, that whole ending - I wish I could have done another shot.'