James Purefoy Quotes

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

On every show, there's some amount of work that is brought to some state of completion - or even finished - and then cut out of the movie.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend shooting a feature film on a still camera.

I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.

Zooming in, zooming out. I was shocked. I said, "Let's erase this right now, put the camera behind the stage and I'll do the performance just for the camera." He set up everything and I told him to go outside and smoke a cigarette. Come back when I finish. Don't touch the camera. This was the way how I've done most everything after that.

I shoot a scene, edit it, and then, two days later, I doubt whether or not it has turned out right. I reshoot a small part of it, go back to the first edit of it, and do all sorts of things.

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

'Goliath' is about nine, 10 minutes long, and the end of it is so interesting, we didn't really want it to be used as a single.

My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it's a selfie video or a music video.

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

It's wonderful to work on footage by someone who understands how to get it to cut right, which a lot of directors don't.

When I got on my first set, I watched what the cinematographer was doing, and at that level in film school, the cinematographer has the most control. They're the one looking through the viewfinder, carrying the camera, framing the shots.

I've always wanted to produce. I've had my production company name for years, even though I didn't really do anything with it right away.

You can certainly shorten things and tighten things, we tightened up Jon's walk to Mance Rayder's tent. That was something that got tightened up a little bit because I had shot the hell out of that.

There are some directors who don't like the set much. They like post-production, where you have all the ingredients in the can - you've got all the footage, all the music, the various effects - and then you have to do the alchemy necessary to make it all good, a long and very key process of putting everything together and making it into the cogent thing that you want.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

I was just this video-store guy and now I was actually making movies and stuff.

My first cut is always pretty similar to the final cut.

Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different.

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.

Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put them a different way that looks better. We just give him everything he needs, and then he goes in and does his thing.

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

I love the auditioning process. I love working with the technical guys. I absolutely love the editing room. That was completely fascinating to me, working with an editor in crafting the thing into something you had in your head.