“I did my friend's film - this guy Harrison Atkins who's a great filmmaker. He just makes movies with all his friends, and I think that's all what we're striving for - to feel like we're among friends and people who care about each other. I'd like to think that good work comes from that - from a sort of loving and friendly environment.” PeopleThinkingCareFilmGuyEnvironmentStriveFilmmakerFriendlyGood WorkGreat Film Author:Peter Vack
“It's always nice to have a large role, but if it's a great small part, those can be so much fun. Size is less important than quality, always.” ImportantFunQualityNice Author:Peter Vack
“What's nice about writing and making films is that being able to see a film from the outside - from the inception through production and then completion - just informs what you're doing when you're an actor. And when you're an actor, it informs the decisions you make when you're making a film. It's using two different sides of your personality.” WritingDifferentFilmDecisionNicePersonalityCompletionInception Author:Peter Vack
“I was really able to confirm something that I knew on some level before I'd made a film. The best actors know how to really relax. Because in film, a lot of the decisions are made in the editing room, so when you're trying to guide your performance too much - always it's a push and pull because you can't be too relaxed. Too relaxed and it's like, "What are you doing?" Too tense and it's not good either.” TryingFilmDecisionRelax Author:Peter Vack
“If you feel like you're working with good people, you give them your humanity and just let it happen.” PeopleGivingHumanityLike YouGood People Author:Peter Vack
“You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.” ThinkingFilmActing Author:Peter Vack
“If you're in something and you feel like it's not going well, what can you do about that? It's out of your hands. No matter what you do, you're not going to fix that as an actor.” Author:Peter Vack
“I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it.” Pornography Author:William Rehnquist
“I think the idea of embracing the process, creating something, no matter how thin it is, that you can call a starting point - whether it's a word or it's an idea, or it's a little piece of narrative that you might base a film on - starting that journey of making the work. That's also something that every individual does very differently.” ThinkingFilmIndividualJourney Author:Doug Aitken
“You see someone like maybe William Eggleston. William doesn't even really talk about what he does; he just wants to make these images. He kind of hovers around a location and extracts these images.” Kind Author:Doug Aitken