Freddie Wong Quotes

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.

To make great movies, there is an element of risk. You have to say, 'Well, I am going to make this film, and it is not really a sure thing.'

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

I don't worry about what everyone wants to see. I make movies that please a writer, director and myself. I always think there are enough people smart as me and sensitive as me.

I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

I just make films that attract me.

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.'

For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.

In my work, I have always tried to push the boundaries of what fashion can do.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.

I am definitely going to continue directing, but I am always going to try to explore new ways of making films. It really is possible to make films in different ways.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

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

I could program a 'fabulous, I love it' kind of hit season right now. I'm more interested in breaking boundaries, telling a story, defying a truth that has been accepted.

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.