Filmmaking Background Quotes

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.

One day, I woke up, and I was on CBS in front of millions of people, and I'm like, 'Oh man, I don't know anything.' The only thing I'd ever technically studied was filmmaking.

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

There was nobody in my family who knew anything about the film industry. I'm from the west of Scotland. It's not exactly a mecca for filmmaking. I think I saw Rab C. Nesbitt in Asda once, but that was about it.

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

Here's the thing: I come from a filmmaking background, so this concept of sort of overseeing a television show but not directing was, in general, not weird, but I had to get used to what that felt like. My initial instinct was, 'I want to direct as much of this as possible.' But the logistics of making of TV, that's just not possible.

I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

Everyone thinks 'Lola' was my first film, but I'd made 14 movies before that.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

I had taken a directing class in high school. Looking back on it now, I think it was all heading that way.

I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did.