Scott Westerfeld Quotes

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

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

When I started, you didn't focus so much on production, certainly not - gosh - down to the finest little detail of how you shifted your eyes or how you turned to somebody. A lot of the shots were far away from a still camera. There weren't as many close-ups and intimacy.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.

Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

I have always believed that directing a film is like telling a story. You have to tell it well so that it is appreciated.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.