Ezra Miller Quotes

I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

Film, I think, is my medium.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

The funny thing is that I almost find it more difficult now to take a still picture than to be behind a moving camera. I'm just so much more inspired and comfortable and confident when I have that whole operation going. I feel more connected. Snapping a moment doesn't seem relevant to me anymore.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

One advantage of photography is that it's visual and can transcend language.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Photographs speak to me, and I obey.

The camera is the slave to the actor.

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

I've worked in the film business for 45 years, and I want to keep on growing as a filmmaker. I want to see my visual life grow and be increasingly effective in this world.

To catch a piece of life on camera and make it come alive, add layers to it and deliver a product that is wholesome is really exciting to me.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

Creating films and photographs through situations that few others could experience is my life's inspiration.

I wanted to be a director first to protect my writing. I'm a playwright and you don't need to protect your writing when you're in the theater because everyone's there to protect the writing. When I had an idea for a film that I really cared about as my own, I wanted to direct it, and then I immediately became interested in directing in and of itself because it's such a deep art. You suddenly have all these tools at your disposal to tell the story.

Emil Nava brother is Jake Nava, who did Beyonce's Crazy In Love and stuff. He's always lived in his brother's shadow, and this is the first time that he's just killing sh*t. I'm really just happy that he's on top and really doing well.

I enjoy directing. I don't know whether it's improving or not, but it's certainly evolving in different directions.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

I can't do the movies like I do painting because I am really more of a sort of dilettante or something. I mean I know guys that make movies that I can see it is absolutely their medium and they can just go from one movie right into the next because it is just - they have got it so much on the tips of their fingers. But for me it is a special effort.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.