Tom DeLonge Quotes

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

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

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

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

I have always believed that when a film is being made, it has to be the director's vision.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.

If I have an idea I want to put in a movie, I know what camera will make that look best, and I have ideas for future projects and stuff I'd like to build for those. I think it's just part of how I work, though.

Directing's the best part. Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. And secondly, it means that you've gotten through all the writing stuff, and the producing stuff, and casting, and prep, and all those stages that are seemingly endless. So directing is sort of the reward for all the work you put in before. And then there's the editing, which is another amazing stage of the process. It's incredible the moments you can create.

You become the movie you are making.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I don't think I'd ever start making a film until I had both the intimacy with the subject and the distance to make it live in a certain way.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

I found it very difficult to explain to someone why you did a film. It's not like having a conversation.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

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

There are no great scripts - just great films.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.