Freddie Wong Quotes

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.

It was only after I began to write fiction that I found a way to connect with painting.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

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

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

I've always wanted to be an animator. That's an ultimate art form, right there.

It is Method on 'This is England;' it is. But it can't be Method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.