Cinematic Production Quotes

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

I'm very excited about is that my son Scott is a director and he just finished his first picture. It's called "Lucky 13", it's a low budget picture, it stars Jeremy Dillon, Daryl Hannah and Jami Gertz.

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

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above.

No one goes to Pakistan to make movies. You stick out.

A film is not done by one person. It's done by a lot of people. I love this whole collaborative aspect. When it works well, you end up with something better than any of us started out to do.

I know it sounds earnest, but I do really feel in my bones that acting is just a small part of the equation when you are making a movie. The director really is in charge. Actors are as important or unimportant as the rest of the people around them.

You can't get much done by yourself. Speaking as someone who made a movie - and it took hundreds of people to make it happen - I can say that.

You can't make a movie about the artist without shooting outdoors.

Today, filmmaking isn't just about shooting and releasing. You've to structure the marketing of a film.

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

This is all so exciting I've decided to keep making one movie every 36 years.

It would be excellent to do a 'Star Wars.'

I worked with Tyler before on 'Daddy's Little Girls'. He couldn't be smarter or more laid back and cool. He's always throwing out lines and is funny as hell. And he was shining his light on 'Peeples', too, lending his name to showcase Tina as a first-time director, and me as a first-time lead.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

Making a movie is like making an ocean voyage, and the script is your ship.

Film is a collaborative business: bend over.

The film [Dream of Life] is not really an amateur work, despite the fact that none of us have ever done anything like this before; aesthetically, none of us are amateurs.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

There's kind of a summer camp aspect of filming on location.

Movies principally require the best of everybody, all at the same time, being the best they can be. Not just like five people being the best they've ever been, and 10 people not being the best they could be. It's like if everybody is either doing their greatest work, or the whole house of cards falls apart.

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.

The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made.