Stevie Jackson Quotes

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.

Get the overall. Some of my films may have been crude at times, or tough, or missed the points, but I've tried to get the overall in. I think that's more important. You may miss a thing or two, but you move faster. If you can do it in three takes, do it in three takes.

I think coming off of "Blame", I've been talking a lot about directing. It's something that I really love and connect with. I truly consider it what I was born to do. That kind of loops in with filmmaking on the whole, because when you create something, you're also wearing a lot more hats than just director. At the same time, I also think acting is something that's very powerful in my life.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

I so love the animation process. Interesting, everything that I do in animation, the kind of crafting and skills of storytelling, totally work within the structure of the Disney nature films. In a weird way, I like to think that animation is like painting, and Disney nature is like sculpting. Animation you start with a blank canvas and you paint. With Disney nature, you start with a big block of imagery and you hone it down into your final story. Somewhere you end up with something kind of pretty to watch.

I do love making films. I want to be a filmmaker that grows and progresses and does keep trying to push myself. I think that's it... and a bit of confidence maybe.

I just want to make a beautiful film. I've had it in my head for so long, so I want to try. Every now and again I get scared. And that's not really how I operate in songwriting or as Sia the artist, the singer. I don't operate from a place of fear. But this is such a new area for me. I still have some insecurity. So, like, once a week I get washed from the top of my skull down to my toes with this vomitous feeling of fear. I think, "Just don't do it. You don't have to do it. You're already a singer and a songwriter. Really, you don't have to make a movie.".

I think I'll try to keep working in film for a little bit. There's something still kind of magical about it, that I don't want to let go of.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

I was never one of those people who thought, 'What I really want to do is direct.' It never occurred to me.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I don't think you can figure this stuff out. If you could figure all this stuff out, then all the great filmmakers would come out of Yale and Harvard. It's not an intellectual process.

Going to directing wasn't a reaction away from acting as much as it was a move towards something I always wanted to do. Ever since I was a kid, I was interested in the camera and how it worked and why one director would place it in this part of the room and then another would place it in that part of the room.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.