Sharon Lawrence Quotes

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I discovered shooting and filmmaking around the time all of the software became affordable to anyone with a PC.

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.

I don't tweet. I don't know how to tweet.

That's one of the best things about the RED ONE - I can use all the best lenses that have been used in film forever.

If it's just me on stage telling stories for, like, an hour, that's great. That's fine. But like a sandcastle on the beach, it gets washed away at night. It's so much more powerful if we can all share our narratives and doorstep moments and make us feel a little less alone. I'm just trying to use social media and new media as a way to capture that.

What I'm trying to do is to make films - 'I Origins' is one of them - with the new generation of filmmakers. I want to support that.

Social media is huge. You can give people a behind-the-scenes look at your life.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

My generation was born to work with social media - it's a natural part of our communication with the world.

The film industry is moving towards digital technology.

It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.

When we started on 'Coraline,' there was a whole host of things that we had no idea how we were going to do. Because we were making films in a way that had never really been done before, we were taking this hundred-year-old art form and bringing it into a new era by embracing technology and innovation.

A lot of people want to get involved, so thinking up Vines that require crowds is always good. But I've definitely gotten tweets before that were like, 'Just saw Logan Paul shooting a Vine and ran in the other direction!' so it's not for everyone.

Social media... it's the future for the new generation.

The media has to go local and go social.

In 2013, I was broke after making my first movie, 'Jason Nash is Married,' and I got on Vine hoping to sell a few copies.

My belief is that every single major magazine cover is retouched. I don't know how they couldn't be.

I think I look at media differently than anyone older would.

I don't get Twitter or social media. I really don't understand it or read it. I see it as a distraction.

I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn't there.

I actually carried a Panavision Platinum and a G2 when I was seven months pregnant for a film called 'Little Birds,' and the whole movie was handheld. And we were shooting in the desert. That's a 35-millimeter camera. It's huge, probably at least 50, 55 pounds, and I did all my own operating.

I think the beauty of the Internet is that it's giving a lot of people the opportunity to reach people around the world that they never would have been able to, and for people to tell their own stories where they don't see themselves reflected in mainstream media, or the media is misrepresenting the truth, right.

The dawn of the 21st century marked the emergence of the social media age.