Len Wiseman Quotes

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

So many people have said this, but it's true: 95 percent of what I do as a director is casting and getting people who can bear the load of what you're asking them to do and creating this emotionally safe environment.

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with.

I never argue with any director. When they say something will click, I believe them.

Filmmaking is teamwork.

When it's a good director, you can feel when they trust you when they cast you.

I've got a good team, got great agents that I know are going to handle the business side, and I trust those guys.

When I cast someone in a movie, I have to absolutely trust who they are as a human being. Trust is the intangible of moviemaking.

You have to trust in the people you have around you.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

I really enjoyed it - being involved in watching rushes and playback [in "The Invisible Woman"]. Ralph [Fiennes] was very open to my input, I think knowing that he couldn't always be there 100 percent, that he had dual aims with directing and acting.

I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.

The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.

That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.

Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

You have to give guys tools to win with, and if they have success with them then they believe in you. If you don't have anything in your bag to work with, then they won't believe.

There's no enemy in the auditioning process. Everybody wants you to be the right person when you walk in the room. We're all just trying to make a soup here, and they're trying to figure out the right ingredients for the soup.

I think one of the coolest things about the job is the level of trust we have for each other. The actors fully trust that the writers will write amazing episodes, and the writers trust that the actors will follow their instincts with the characters.

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

The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

I love doing a film with a new bunch of people.