Hank Green Quotes

Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

I'm a filmmaker, so I always think: When is the breaking point? Sometimes you've got to go beyond the breaking point, and then you catch it. When is long enough? It's one of those things you have to look at, walk away, and go home and find out what it is.

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

I do enjoy making videos, even though they are long days and very hard work.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

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.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

Every stage of filmmaking's important while you're doing it, so I spend most of my time figuring out how to tell the story. I have all these stories and ideas, but it's how to tell the story.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

Making a film is a challenge.

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.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

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

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

Producing a film is not an easy job at all.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.