Joel Schumacher Quotes

So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies.

'Saw' has been a unique experience in that I've had the opportunity to work with some really great artists, and everyone has contributed in so many different ways, in all of the different departments of a film crew.

You can't direct without a good crew.

I think filmmaking is a team work and it's a shared responsibility.

There always comes a moment where all the departments in a film need to work together. And if a director, his first assistant director, and cinematographer have a very clear vision, then everybody does work together.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

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.

Nobody could dissapear to their trailer once it was up and running, you were all there on the same stage. It was 10 days of rehearsal and 10 days of shooting, which was very tiring.

I loved working on 'Donnie Darko.' I learned a lot from the cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and the producers. I love doing what I do because I get to meet so many great people.

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

At Netflix, we think you have to build a sense of responsibility where people care about the enterprise. Hard work, like long hours at the office, doesn't matter as much to us. We care about great work.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

It's a privilege to be able to be involved with people as talented as the people I've had the luck to work with, and it's just been a great experience for me, and I'm glad that so many of the films I've had the luck to do were films that could be enjoyed by families together.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.

I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.

When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.

I'd have to say the whole experience in making The Neverending Story. I had an incredible time.

How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie.

I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain.

I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.