Jessica Chastain Quotes

The best filmmakers have a very familial attitude in sort of embracing the set, beyond the cast, with the wardrobe, and the hair and makeup, and the props, just making everybody feel very familial.

In India, film sets are like a family atmosphere.

I'm just gonna make movies the best I can, do the festival thing or whatever can come. I plan on working with a lot of the same guys over and over again. I hope the majority of us can stick together.

Honestly, when you're making a movie, you never say, 'Oh, this one's going to suck and go straight to video.' When you're in it, you think you're doing the best work you can do. You're surrounded by people who are working hard. Everybody's hopeful.

It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.

You can't direct without a good crew.

I'm not a master; I'm just a hard-working filmmaker. I would like everyone to see me as a friend rather than a master.

That's what I learned most about directing on my own - you've got to build a family, a filmmaking family.

As a director, it just makes my life fantastic to work with people like Elizabeth Hawthorne.

Every film is a human encounter. It's people trying to collaborate and create something together.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

There always comes a moment where all the departments in a film need to work together. And if a director, his first assistant director, and cinematographer have a very clear vision, then everybody does work together.

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.

I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.

I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

Every film has challenges and all of us are doing it together, all the cast is doing it together so you keep each other motivated I guess and keep each other in check.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on 'Pi' and 'Requiem'. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films.

Making a film, you're in a really dark tunnel and the only kind of illumination is the shared experience you're having with your fellow cast and director.