Greg Mottola Quotes

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

Doing something like 'Bushwick,' a lot of people need to agree that the piece is working with what's going on on the screen. So it's a lot of tweaks and re-works, just kinda moving pieces around and getting things to hit right.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

I like the feeling of making things. It's very very rewarding. And filmmaking is that type of experience, where you're forced to collaborate with so many people. You're involved in the beginning to end, you're involved with so many elements, and when it's done, you're like, 'I made this movie.'

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.

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

I depend on good editors and a good director.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.

The cool thing about directing is, whatever cool thing works in the scene, it's still making the episode be a great story, and everyone's working toward that goal, so it doesn't much matter where it's coming from.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.