Emmanuel Lubezki Quotes

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

Movies are too literal.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

A film engages you emotionally and intellectually.

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

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

But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

My heart is in independent film-making. For me, it's where the fun, gritty storytelling is being told.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

Regardless of the medium, be it television or feature or documentary, I'm not gonna distinguish and worry about my particular canon, whatever that means.

Film has the potential of allowing me to explore my own ideas, which I find very attractive.