Simon Beaufoy Quotes

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.

A filmmaker has to have faith in talent.

All the excitement is during the making of a film. Once I'm done with it, I switch to my next project and am excited about that.

When you're a filmmaker or a scriptwriter, you face a lot of challenges while making a film. And when you produce it, you have to put in an extra effort.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

Making a movie is difficult enough to sort of have a premeditated length that you're going for. I don't know a single filmmaker on the planet who does that.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

When you make your first film, there is a hell of a lot to think about, and you've got to have a gut understanding of your material.

I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

Making a film is a challenge.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

I like to produce my own movies.

I think filmmaking is largely about preparation and taste and luck. If you have all of those three things, I think you will find you can work somehow.

I started my production house with the idea of directing one day.

Apart from the highs and lows of when your film releases, there's a strange, addictive quality that making a film has because of all that drama. There's so much that goes on, and we miss it when it's over.

So you know, as a filmmaker you have to get it all right in the writing stage. After that, one has to leave it on the judgement of your trusted ones and the audiences.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.