Christian de Portzamparc Quotes

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

I still want to direct. That's my main love, and that comes from being obsessed with subtleties and people.

If you're a documenter, you're taking a video of something in the real world you want to capture. If you're a director, you're trying to create something in the real world.

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I look at the stories that Spike Lee tells... Great stories. Great director, great storyteller.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I love directing.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

I never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.