Reed Morano Quotes

All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film.

I don't make films to reproduce reality.

Cinema is a creative medium. The director has the right to express.

The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

Some of my best experiences are with writer/directors. Guy Ritchie is one. I feel they have a clearer view of what they want to do. They haven't got to try and interpret someone's writing; it's all theirs. I really admire that.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

It's only the filmmaker. The script is really, really second. And there's a huge gap between filmmaker and script for me. I almost don't care about the story that they're telling; I really only care about who wants to tell it.

I don't approach films purely in context of genre.

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

Studios never put pressure. They know the kind of films I want to make.

At the risk of saying you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie: you should make a self-indulgent film for your first movie.

The reason I took on directing a film myself was because, no matter how skilful a director was or how much I liked the film, there'd always be beats where I'd go, 'Oh... well, that's skilful, in a way, but it doesn't get the flavour I'd intended in the script.'

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I think that, again, filmmaking is the director's medium in the end, and the best thing a producer can do is stay out of the way and support the director one hundred percent.

I have always believed Chandra Barot is a very talented director.

No one's telling Tarantino what to do. You might like it or you might not like it, but the reality is he's getting his own vision out there.

Everyone will always have ideas about how to make your work better. Everyone has advice about how to end your play differently. Start it differently. And it's not about right or wrong. At the end of the day, it's your baby, and you know what's best.

'The Lobster,' at some point, was my most accessible film. Then I made 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' which turned out to be not as accessible as 'The Lobster.' It was the film I wanted to make and the story I wanted to tell.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.