Mark Strickson Quotes

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

Documentaries for me always felt kind of limiting. I wanted to go bigger. And I also love actors, and I love performance. So feature filmmaking was always the intent.

I always wanted to make a film on Kalahandi.

Moviemaking is about telling a story. And you need to know what story you are going to tell.

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I like very much to do movies.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

I spent about a year and a half doing technical post work on 'The Fountain'. Although I do like the process, I think my favorite part of filmmaking is the actors.

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

The movies are all about visual, and television is all about character and dialogue.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I always loved experimenting in film.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it's like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that'd sort of be the area of the field that I'm going to move into, I hope.

You can have a bunch of great actors in a film, but if you don't have anyone telling a great story, it's a moot point.

If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.