Stacey Snider Quotes

Filmmaking is a real craft.

In cinema, the leading player is the director.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Making films is sort of like you're pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light.

Film is a different art form with its own demands and its own riches.

I think my passion for cinema really started when I was on the set of 'Mud' and my third film 'Joe.' That's when I really started to fall in love with the art of filmmaking.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I love the theater, but if I had to choose, I would choose a film at this time in my life. Something meaty, to sink my teeth into.

I've always loved film and wanted to work in film. I just love working and creating new characters, and trying different genres and different things.

Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I never wanted to be in the show business. I wanted to do special effects.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.