Jason Blum Quotes

I'm not very aware of styles. We never talk about styles before we start shooting, or even during shooting, because I think the film will bring you there.

Fundamentally, whether directing in the theatre or a film, you have to be a good storyteller, regardless of the form. The thing I had to work hardest at was thinking in shots.

Some directors are interested in acting, and others are only interested in cranes and moving the camera.

I think the way you make a movie dictates the movie that you make.

Making realistic films is basically about the style.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

My tools, my medium, include pictures and live actors.

What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways. When I direct a movie, I'm going to use that.

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they can do the lighting, that's what I don't like.

Every film deserves its own unique look.

I think directing is something I would really enjoy.

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.

If you know how to shoot a scene, then you know how to shoot an action scene. If you've seen an action movie, and you watched it, and you paid attention to how scenes are constructed and where the camera is and how the camera moves, then you know how to do it.

In television, the cuts are so quick: bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! I want to shoot two people and sit there for eight minutes and watch them. I've got a lot to learn about television and about the best ways to tell stories directorially in that medium.

Half of 'Mudbound' were shots I stole in between other scenes.

Honestly, if I could shoot everything in 1:33, I would.

Raman Raghav' was shot on location, but there are many stylistic things in it. I like this mixture of documentary and extreme stylization.

I've always been passionate about directing.