Francesca Lo Schiavo Quotes

I'm like George Lucas, bringing together a creative team that will come up with a unique, well-crafted product.

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

A show is like it's own thing... it's a creation from so many people's talent and so much energy.

When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

I am always making sketches of how information should look or mapping out a marketing campaign. When I present my notes, people start responding to them. Desktop publishing makes everything look slick. When you present sketches, it helps start the dialogue and collaboration.

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

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

It's weird - on almost every film I've worked on, the first sequence we storyboard ends up being the first sequence that goes into animation, and ends up being almost shot-for-shot the same.

In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet.

For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.

I come in. I'm going to sketch, I'm going to drape, I don't know what I'm going to do.

It's like a cast of actors; you're all working together closely under pressure to produce something everyday. And when we put up an issue, it's like the curtains opening on a new play. I really like that daily sense of surprise.

'Fowl Space' was a lovechild of boredom. While in class, two of the developers started passing designs back and forth. Somewhere in the middle of all that ink and crumpled paper, a chicken in a space helmet was born and thus we have 'Fowl Space.'

To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify the crew. I send out shot lists, act out the scenes, and search for a theme that I can relate to. It's my favorite time of the process.

I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas.

With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.

We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything.

A lot of directors say, 'Do whatever you want, and I'll just change it on set.' But I love being involved in every part of production. It's very exciting. It's like an empire of creation: Everybody is working so hard to respect a vision and an idea, and it's very weird and inspiring at the same time.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

I start with an idea in my head. I sketch it out quickly as a line drawing, using pencil. It never comes out quite right - usually a bit better than my mental picture.

Life is very complicated. I look to collaborate with artistic people and to go into an endeavor without judgment and to hopefully be treated with the same.

When Gene makes a movie, the people who work on it have such a love for him that the set is always a happy place.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.

The thing is that when you make a film, it is such an intense experience. It's like being married.