Barbra Streisand Quotes

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

The truth is that filmmaking is not really an actor's medium; it's really a director's medium, so all I can really control is the character that I'm playing. So I try to look for characters that are interesting and engaging and different than what I've done before and hopefully it becomes a good movie.

TV and film taught me to think cinematically. Teaching others to edit, for example, provides a great deal of insight into the millions of ways in which given elements can be put together to tell a story.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.

I experienced a lot of things while I was working with Dibakar Banerjee.

Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.

It's different if you're a painter. You can hidethe ones that don't work. You can't do that with movies. They tellthe story of who you are at the time, and that's the wonderful thingabout it.

When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

I love writing, directing and photography; if I could figure out a way to put the three things together, that's what I would love to do.

One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.

Making a movie is casting a spell.

I just wrapped 'Eclipse' yesterday and the last scene we shot is probably my favorite thus far. I finally got to tell my story, in a very gentle yet elaborate way.

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again - I just have to find a story I want to tell.

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

I'm proud of 'Sinister' because Scott and Cargill did a great job on the movie, and I set up a framework for them to make what they wanted to make. They gave me the idea, and I figured out how to get it out into the world.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

It's one of the most beautiful things in the world, to go off and make a film. At the heart of it, making a film - it's pretend. It's a silly thing to do. But it can be important, and to have that experience with people you love is one of the best things you can do.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me.