Christopher Gorham Quotes

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

What you write on the page has nothing to do with when you're on set. When you're on set, it has nothing to do with when you're in the editing room. And when you're in the editing room, it has nothing to do with the final movie. You just have to let it go.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

I know nothing about making a movie.

Making a movie is like you're behind the wheel, and you're driving through the obstacle course, and the pedal is down, and you can't brake.

I directed a short series for Hulu called 'Paloma,' and being in an editing room, I learned a lot about acting. It gave me a new bolt of energy in terms of my interest in filmmaking because it made me realize how collaborative filmmaking can be and also that you're not just limited to one job.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

Movies remind me of recording. Just the process of it - the intricacies, the technicalities, the days and the long hours, and mastering and mixing and editing. But seeing the final product, it all pays off in the end. That's the rush - when you see things come to life.

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.