Lana Del Rey Quotes

I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.

A music video is so different to doing a movie.

The key to making good movies is to pay attention to the transition between scenes.

I don't like fast cuts. I'd rather shoot something that dances to the music.

The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.

Making movies is an effort is an attempt to leave a trace of your existence.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

Some filmmakers, you know, have their style and then they kind of go looking for the movie. I'm not like that. I don't have one style that I want to take from movie to movie.

I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

I always did music, but music is an easier thing for me. Making videos and doing comedy things was more of a challenge, so I was more interested in that. Music is a little bit more automatic.

Editing is fun for me. That's where you make things happen. Filming a movie, I just try to set things up and see where it goes. Editing is a puzzle. I often don't even know what I'm trying to say. I'm just trying to make myself laugh. That's it. It's musical, or something.

You stay with the foundation and then you just try different things because you don't know how the director will cut it and you want to give him, what will work, and you want to give him some options, give yourself some options, discover some things when you start to play. That's what we do; we get paid to play.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

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 prefer making videos to making music.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

I've always seen it to be a privilege to make movies. It's a really expensive, creative medium.

One of the most telling things about film school is you've got a lot of students wandering around saying, "Oh, I wish I could make a movie. I wish I could make a movie."

There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

I love the editing process of making movies. I just wish that life had one.