Orson Welles Quotes

I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

I'm a filmmaker, and I was most influenced by Hitchcock's films. How he could plant such deep enriched characters and then make us care both about the antagonist and protagonist was masterful.

Movies are art and the spirit of the movie depends on the creators.

Movies are an editor's medium.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.

Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.

I've enjoyed the singular focus of not going back and forth between the two mediums. It isn't about the screen size so much as film being where the stories I'm most interested in telling happen to be at.

Whether you're Godard or Almodovar or Scorsese, it's text, text, text. Everything begins with the text, and this is a source of great anguish to me. So please let cinema get on with doing what it does best, which is expressing ideas in visual terms.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

We filmmakers are control freaks. For us, it's about bending the elements of a story into existence.

In film, I believe things should either be documentary or drama.