Wes Ball Quotes

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

I'm directing and writing the 'Big Stone Gap' movie.

Just so everyone knows out there - it's not easy to make a movie. It's really hard.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I never made a good movie.

There's the movie you write, there's the movie you shoot and the movie you edit, and often, you find that you're getting the same information out of a scene that you already have and a scene that's actually more powerful, so you have to make the tough decision to take it out.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two - Bit Waltz'. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

Making movies is really hard. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

I love how you can shoot a movie in a month or two or three of four, and it's this encapsulated story that you box up and ship out into the world, and what it is, is what it is.

I definitely want to study film. I'd like to have my own studio one day and just make a lot of movies.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.