Kenneth Lonergan Quotes

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.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

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

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

I like pre-production and post the best. I don't like shooting at all. I find it grueling and tough, but I love post and the whole process of seeing the film finally come together. You start ironing out all the rough spots, and the really bad bits you just throw away. So from day one of post to the last day, you see nothing but improvements.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

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 grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

I have so much appreciation for movies because I understand how hard it is to make one.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

I love having made a movie.

Making movies is a hard thing, and it's slow. So you can glorify the product, but the process is difficult no matter who you are.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody.

There is so much that I love about all aspects of making a film or a TV show.