Milos Forman Quotes

I would consider directing. I think directing myself would be tough, but I'm definitely interested in directing. I might start off directing a play before I move to a film.

When you're working on a film, it's not theater; you don't have a few weeks of rehearsal. A lot of times you are showing up on set, and you've never been to the place; you've never met the other actors you're working with.

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go on the set and watch the director work and the actors work, and sometimes I'll hang out with B camera and watch what they're up to and ask questions because there's so much to learn about the medium.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

The director is the only person on the set who has seen the film. Your job as a director is to show up every day and know where everything will fit into the film.

I decided to do advertising, as ad films were made in only 10 days, and started assisting Sanjeev Sharma and Mansoor Khan. Surprisingly, I was a whiz kid and soon learnt to edit films and became an expert at it.

Every film teaches you something; every experience on every film set with every co-star teaches you something. You learn something new. I think the challenge is to keep working harder and doing better.

I like hanging around the set and learning how people do things, how the set runs.

And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography.

I was on a picture for four or five days, had an opportunity to be on a set, and the assistant cameraman kept showing me things. One day I climbed the fence, knowing they needed an assistant cameraman. A couple of days later, I was one. The first day or two, it was pretty disastrous, but I knew something about photography, and I caught on quick.

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.

Directing is a very, very difficult job.

A director should be in a position where he is only directing. On the sets, he is only looking at the performances, thinking 'How I am going to shoot this?'

I have worked in films where we just put on the make-up and go in for a shoot without any discussions and even a talk with the director.

I had to really learn what it meant to be on a set and what the expectations were and what producers are. I had to learn who I'm talking to and what their functions are. I had a couple of gaffes: I would ask a person a question, and it wasn't their job. I had to Google their job description. That was the first big adjustment.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

There was definitely a learning curve in terms of being on film, but being on a set was all good.

The only entry level position on a movie is director.

I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.

I just finished a film a few days ago, and I came home and said I learned so much today. So if I can come home from working on a little film after doing it for 45 years and say, "I learned so much today," that shows something about the cinema. Because the cinema is very young. It's only 100 years old.

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, … shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie.