Kevin Feige Quotes

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

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

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

I've created, directed and choreographed for Lady Gaga since the beginning, so 'Born This Way,' this was musically such an amazing evolution and such a brilliant record. So when she played it for me, it took me a while to find out the visual interpretation that I could give back to her.

I knew that I'd end up directing because I'm so hands-on with my films.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

When the director has a vision for a piece that I've never heard before, and they can back that up with visuals, and they talk a good game, I get really interested in the world that they're trying to create.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

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

I've worked with a lot of directors who really don't have a sense of what the hell they want.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

As the director, I try to go in and know as much as I can about the material. I really try to go in and understand what all the characters are about, what the movie's going to look like.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

Nobody will ever notice that. Filmmaking is not about the tiny details. It's about the big picture.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

The first movies were made by technicians building their own cameras. Movies became an art when technicians worked on the technique and artists took care of the content.

Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of 'What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the characters? What is the conversation here?' My sense of pacing is very filmlike, it's not musical.