Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

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.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

A film just doesn't involve actors, a director and a producer, there is also the cameraman, the sound engineer, the music composer, the lyric writer. So many people come together to make a film. When we all feel satisfied with the film that we have created it's a win for all of us.

Film is a collection of many mediums and collaboration and you're only as strong as the people you're working with - and everybody owns their mediums.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

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.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

I don't think people understand what it takes to make a movie unless they've experienced it themselves or been around it. It's a miracle every time you make a movie, and a bigger miracle if it turns out well.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

The thing I really love about film is there's a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.

For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

I never watch the dailies. What I usually do is have a look at the rough or final cut, and I just get something from the story. Sometimes I start composing even before the director has shot anything. The dailies don't help me at all.

I'm very interested in the editing process - in all aspects of film-making, really.

The thing that I love about moviemaking is how many people it takes to make it.

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.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music for a film is fascinating to me.

Making a film is just layers and layers of work of edits and trial and error.