Chris Chibnall Quotes

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

One of my biggest fears as a director is that everything is taking too long on camera. The actor saying their lines, the silence between lines, the length of time it takes to walk from A to B. So you try it at different speeds and then see what sticks in the edit room.

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I like to direct for the big screen.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

On 'Awake,' we would take a couple hours per scene. Whereas on 'Anger Management,' we can take maybe 10 minutes on a scene if we're lucky.

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'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.

After directing movies, I respect any director in this world, because making a movie as a director is tons and tons of work.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two - Bit Waltz'. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

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