Ben Edwards Quotes

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda.

I'm interested in making films that make people think.

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

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

I know the movies that I've liked, and I know the experience that they've given me, so the goal is always to try to create a movie that I would like myself and that would knock me out, challenge me or intrigue me in some way. That's been my criteria for figuring out what I want to do, or also when I'm writing something or creating a scene.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.

I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.

We always set out to just make a great movie.

That's what I wanted to do... I wanted to make a great film that just happened to be based on a video game.

Of course I know what works for me and what kind of tone I want my films to have.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

For me, the film-maker is more important than the story.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I think, if you can, it's OK to put something in a movie because it makes you feel good.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

My interpretation of a strong director is someone who knows their story. That's what directors are, they're storytellers because they're directing where your focus is going to be as an audience.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.