Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.
It's not rocket science to make a movie.
Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.
Anything involving the camera, you're passionate about. Because there's no movies without it.
Why would you create a movie for black people if you don't understand the history and perspective of the people you are doing it for? You need historical perspective to make sound decisions.
The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.
My contribution to film has always been negligible.
I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.
I became really aware that when you're making a movie, you're making it three times. You're making it when you're writing it. You're making it when you're shooting it. And then you're remaking it again when you're editing it.
I love horror movies, obviously; otherwise, I wouldn't make them.
Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.
Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.
If people enjoy the film, it can be really intriguing to see what created that film, how each one of those unique components came together, who the people are who did it and what it meant to them to do it.
I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.
Well, this movie I've been working on for a while. I had the idea for the movie like twenty years ago when I was doing 'Empire of the Sun' in 1987 because at that time that's when all these Vietnam movies were being made and my friends and I were going on auditions for these Vietnam movies and my friends were getting them and going away to fake boot camps.
Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.
Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.
People don't talk about how hard it is to make a movie. Nobody does. Ever.
When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.
It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.
I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.
I never really thought I went away because I've written all of the movies and I'm produced them all and certainly provided services about and beyond the average producer on two and three. I was on set most of the films and called action and cut a lot of times and did all that good stuff.
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out.
