Felicia Day Quotes

In making YouTube videos, you can't just be an actor, you have to also know the shots and how to write.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

If you are making a record, you are the one saying 'action', and you are the one saying 'cut,' and you have to be sure that the most interesting thing is not going on outside the frame.

For whatever reason, from a young age I've always been able to shoot images and cut them together with sound in a way that was very engaging.

I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.

People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.

I'm a filmmaker, but my working procedures are different. All my basic structuring is done during the filming. You know, how long I keep the shot, the exposure or the speed - slower or faster, etc. That's structuring. And then there is a second stage of structuring that comes later when I begin to put those pieces together.

With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they can do the lighting, that's what I don't like.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.

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

I think the amount of production value that was put into 'Game of Thrones' was incredible, and it's unlike anything I've seen on any other production, including 'The Lord of the Rings.'