James Marsden Quotes

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I started learning filmmaking by joining a weekend film school in Bengaluru. I made some amateur short films that got appreciation from people around me.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

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

My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

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

I took a film course in grade ten that made me want to direct, and I've always been making short films and home videos with my friends, so it's definitely something I wanna pursue as well.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I'd like to have a go at directing.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

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.

If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.

I made short films in school.

I like to make films about my heroes.

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

It was in Kanpur where I got exposed to the art of filmmaking.