Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

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

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

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 have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

Pre-production and post-production is something that I've never been exposed to. I was pleasantly surprised that you could accomplish a lot during pre-production.

I think some people have a vague idea, but the general public has no clue what the actual behind-the-scenes of filmmaking is and what this profession is.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

Movies remind me of recording. Just the process of it - the intricacies, the technicalities, the days and the long hours, and mastering and mixing and editing. But seeing the final product, it all pays off in the end. That's the rush - when you see things come to life.

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

By 1949 I knew all the studio tricks.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

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

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

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.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.