Lexi Alexander Quotes

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut.

I have no control over a film. I don't know what will be left on the cutting floor.

David and I got cut out the editing process on that. We were able to affect it more than not. We sent in our notes, we were able to see cuts. We weren't allowed to see dailies and we weren't allowed to sit in the editing room and just work.

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

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

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

He wasn't directing it, of course, so I didn't work with Hitchcock.

I don't watch the dailies. You want to just turn in your resignation when you watch the dailies.

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.

I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I wouldn't want to direct. I see how much work it is.

That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.

Movies are great fun and wonderful when they're good. But you never get to see them till six months after they're finished. So you never get a sense of whether they're really well liked or how good they are. And you don't really know what the finished product is going to be like, because it's a director's medium.

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

I would love to direct an 'Apes' movie. It would be in the spirit of where I'm going with my career - avatars played by actors to say something about the human condition.

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard.

There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.