Patricia Riggen Quotes

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

If you stick with a vision, it might not all work, but some of it will be absolute genius. To me, 15 minutes worth of absolute genius in a film is so much better than two hours of mediocrity. I would rather pay to see something different like that.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.

You know as a director what you want, but the film is smarter than you, the film says no, the film says there's something more here.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

You have to be insane to direct.

I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Peter Chelsom and Edgar Wright are totally different directors and worlds apart, but both really accomplished directors who are certain of how they want to make a film.

I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.

I want to do more theater, which allows you to take bigger risks and experiment.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

I never overtly analyse my own movies, I don't think that's my job to do that. I just muddle through and do what I think is best for the movie.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things.

There's something that comes into you that's so exciting when you're directing.

I like to control my films from beginning to end, to write them the way I want.

I don't think there is a movie that I've been on that I wasn't sure I could direct it better. But certainly also, as a director of photography, I have to serve the movie in whatever way I can as a filmmaker.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

It is a challenge to direct any film.

An epic is the canvas Brian DePalma paints on.

I've done more than 100 films, which is a sizeable chunk of life in cinema, so if something can startle me, then I think we can say we're looking at something fairly new.

'The Lobster,' at some point, was my most accessible film. Then I made 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer,' which turned out to be not as accessible as 'The Lobster.' It was the film I wanted to make and the story I wanted to tell.