Steve Buscemi Quotes

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

In moviemaking, you learn to pay attention to detail, because so much is in the detail. And when you're shooting, you try to be very alert to what's going on, even if you're tired.

Neil Mahoney was definitely the visionary in taking 'Freak Dance' from stage to screen. He made it more cinematic. He brought the choreography, all the ways to shoot that. I was more the director of actors. I was in front of the camera directing, and he was behind the camera directing.

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a perfect fit for me.

To get the film in your head on the screen, first you have to take it out of your head and explain it to everyone who is working with you. This will take work and planning.

Some scenes take days and weeks, and some scenes take an hour.

When I did 'Gilbert Grape,' Lasse Hallstrom let me be on the set with him and in the editing room and in the casting sessions and so on. And so I got a firsthand, rather intimate, high-pressure look at how to make a film.

As an actor, I can just show up and do my job. The success and failure of the film depends on team work.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.

In a big movie, like Ridley Scott's 'Kingdom of Heaven,' where I had a small part, you realize your task is to support everything that has to come together. You're just a piece of the puzzle. You're the guy in the hat.

I'm not the best filmmaker, but on the sets, it seems like everybody is having fun.

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

I have been waiting for a film like 'Maximum.' I have learnt so many things while shooting this film. The entire cast has been a pleasure to work with.

Filmmaking is a very serious job, and I want to concentrate on that.

Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander.'

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

I learned that you have to say that you're a filmmaker. You're not a screenwriter; you're not a director for hire. You've got to take charge. You're a filmmaker, and you're going to make a film.

I am very much open to doing cinematography for any talented filmmaker, if the script is good.

At the end of the day, making 'Monster' was unbelievably hard, as making any movie is. And the only thing that made it worth it is not those awards and all those kind of things that I can barely remember because I was so overwhelmed. It was really that night in the editing room, that day on set. It was those things.

I realised that I enjoyed direction while making 'DCH.' The process of putting a film together and working with the cast and crew felt good.

I learned a lot from Direk Brillante Mendoza and Bing Lao.

It was really fun to work on 'The Predator.'

It's really cool to make a movie that you're excited to go see.