John Hurt Quotes

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

I really, really love directing films.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

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

Making movies is all about instinct.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

When I started out, I didn't know if I was ever going to make a movie.

With filmmaking in general, I have never absorbed the traditional knowledge of film history or filmmaking. It has always been just pick up the camera and go figure it out.

Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.

I am a fearless filmmaker.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up."

I've always been a relaxed person on set, but I think the main thing is I think about it from an editing point of view way more than I did before.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.".

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

When I write a screenplay, and when I direct, I always pull lines out.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

What's important in the filmmaking process has stayed the same. Keep it small, keep it personal, keep it authentic, work with people you like and trust. That process is much longer than the filmmaking process. The development process is a long one, so try and say something of importance.

I'm anxious to make another film.