Noel Fielding Quotes

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.

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

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

When you add up the minutes you spend actually making a movie - the amount of time you spend actually doing your thing in front of a camera - it just isn't that much. But it's everything.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Producing is a world of compromise and actors are utterly spoiled all the time.

I continually marvel at people who can make films that reach five hundred million people. How do you do that? Everybody's different - I don't know how that works.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

A movie shoots six months for two hours of film.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

In film, you have to let go sometimes.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.