Joey Soloway Quotes

Joe Wright is incredible and I'm a huge admirer of his work in general, but specifically his aesthetics and poeticism.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

My films express me, my sense of rhythm, my sense of impact, my sense of kinetic energy. I like films to move, but I like also clear storytelling and characters, and most of all, I like authentic emotion.

That's the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

Film has its own innate poetry.

I think Van Sant is the most important American director we have. He takes the most risks. He's just pure to me.

I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Every show I've ever, you know, produced, essentially it's the show I want to watch myself.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

I'm not the kind of director who aims to send a message out.

When I make a movie, I have both a specific and vague, amorphous dream idea of what the movie is going to be. Of course, I don't actually know what it's going to be, but I'm still striving to get to some place with it.

Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.

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

You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.

On a Terrence Malick set, your thoughts are his voice. You think you're thinking, but actually he's thinking for you. He speaks to you, and he's the voice in your mind.