Bill Viola Quotes

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

The big thing on the horizon for me is video. I feel like it's the closest thing to a perfect mix between music and design, because it has the motion and it has the dynamics of music, while at the same time having the aesthetic components of design. It's a nice mix.

The thing is, as a film director, you're essentially alone: You have to tell a story primarily through pictures, and only you know the film you see in your head.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

So, there's only so much you can do with a rock video.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.

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.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

When we started doing sketch comedy - actually in '91 in Chicago - making your own videos, which we did, took forever. It would take like, a year to make one video. It was just so difficult to edit and just do everything you had to do.

When I'm writing film music, I feel like I'm more a filmmaker than a composer. It's more about what the film needs. I'm basically part of the team that's creating a film, and the music is a very important part, but it's just one part of many.

In terms of creativity, both are equally satisfying. Music album is for yourself, where you compose songs and stuff like that, and in films, you have a story, characters, and songs penned by someone else.

I am a creative person and watching a movie is like writing a story. So when I see a movie, I also see the editing, the music, the camera angles, etc.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

I'm all the way hands-on when it comes to my videos.

'City Is Mine' was a real big video for me and a good opportunity to learn how to play out a scene.

In making YouTube videos, you can't just be an actor, you have to also know the shots and how to write.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

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