Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.

I am a very spread out type of director as I just love working in all of these different worlds; I go from commercials to music videos to art projects.

Moviemaking is a dirty, tiring affair. The joy comes from the possibility to be free on set and really let loose.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

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

Especially as a director on 'West Wing,' I directed a lot of different things in a lot of different ways and really stretched my wings.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

I think films are bigger than structure.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Unlike fiction, which you create before you go into production, with reality you kind of create it after everything is produced. The drama and the storytelling is really done in post.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Being a hybrid maker off and on over the years, I'm very comfortable with the idea and have been the subject of quite a few pretty good mash-ups myself.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.