Clive James Quotes

I studied directing prior to acting and I've done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received.

I love the idea of documentaries. I love seeing documentaries, and I love making them. Documentaries are incredibly easy to shoot. The ease with which you can hear something's going on, somebody's going to be somewhere: That sounds so interesting. Pick up your camera and go.

I loved watching documentaries and had wanted to try making one for years - I'd just put it off as other opportunities arose. But I felt like time was running out for me if I wanted to do it.

I'm not an activist at all. I'm a filmmaker, and I wanted the people involved to tell their own story.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

I shoot reality-based movies, and in actual locations, shooting them with a star is next to impossible.

I am a filmmaker. That is all I've ever been. You know, Martin Scorsese makes films about the mob. And I make movies about food.

We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

My favorite way of making films - and what has allowed me to get key scenes in 'Cartel Land' and 'City of Ghosts' - has been when I've been able to operate alone.

My first camera job was filming workplace safety videos, which involved months of watching and videotaping people doing their jobs. I was hooked - from there, I wanted to know where they lived and the rest of their habits and desires.

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.

I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.

Don't worry about getting final cut, worry about making the best possible cut.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.