Steve Antin Quotes

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

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.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

Filmmaking is a miracle of collaboration.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Film is a collaborative medium, and I very much enjoy that.

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.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

Filmmaking is a very collaborative art. Unlike a painting that an artist paints sitting by himself, as a director, you have to work with a team.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

We're lucky to be making films. My crew and I have been working together for a long time. I think that that's what emanates.

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.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

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.

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