Cinematic Imagination Quotes

I imagine the film ["300"] as if I was a Spartan and I had never seen an immortal or a Persian, or an elephant or a rhino for that matter.

I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There's a whole other movie behind it.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

You know I want to be a director, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies.

At Harvard, direct cinema was the core of the film department, and most of the students were trying to make socially conscious works, but I was trying to combine fiction and non-fiction to show how our seemingly factual world is constituted through fantasy and stories.

I love movies where people see the world from a different angle.