“I think having women behind the cameras is exciting - whether it's as a director or a writer or a producer - because it does feel like we're in the middle of this awakening of realizing that it's important for women to have a voice.” ThinkingFeelsDoeImportantVoiceRealizingBehindsMiddleDirectorsExcitingCamerasAwakeningProducers Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“I really love it, I love working with directors that are very collaborative and allow me input. I've done over 75 films, it's just like you're an apprentice. You learn so much about camerawork, lenses, and I'm always talking about DPs and directors and they always give me lists. I think pretty soon, I'll be ready to move away from being in front of the camera.” ThinkingGivingDoneFilmMovingTalkingFrontsReadyLike YouDirectorsGive MeCamerasListsLensesInputApprentice Author:John Leguizamo
“Back in 2007, I met this white guy [director Peter Byck] with a lot of hair and a video camera, at a conference that I happened to be attending for the launch of an organization called Blacks in Green. I had never heard of him and Peter had never heard of me. We just started talking; he liked what I had to say, so he asked me if I'd be willing to be in this documentary he was doing about carbon pollution. I said, "Sure!" It was kind of a no-brainer.” IfsKindSaidGuyWhiteTalkingHappenedHeardWillingHairMetsDirectorsOrganizationCamerasGreenVideoPeterPollutionCarbonDocumentariesConferencesAttendingWhite GuysVideo CamerasNo Brainer Author:Van Jones
“Animators do amazing working translating and interpolating the characters [in the Planet of the apes], the facial performances. What we're creating on set - if you don't get it on the day, in the moment, on set, in front of the camera, with the director and the actors. The emotional content of the scene and the acting choices.” IfsMomentsCharacterChoicesActorsActingFrontsEmotionalPlanetsSceneDirectorsCreatingPerformancesCamerasTranslateApesFacialAnimator Author:Andy Serkis
“Buddy Hackett [was] talking - this is Hackett, not me - about the Virgin Mary, a limerick sort of thing, and all these children and families ... the look of absolute horror. He's going on and on and on, and finally he stops. It's just total horror, and the camera's still rolling. You can hear it, sort of a grinding noise. And the director says, "Anything else, Bud?"” LooksChildrenStillsTalkingHorrorDirectorsAbsolutesCamerasNoiseMaryRollingSay AnythingVirginsBuddyBudVirgin MaryLimerick Author:Bill Murray
“When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.” DifferentFilmSoundCommonImagineHairDirectorsCamerasWoodsWheelsDepartmentMakeupSpokesExecutivesSteelDistributionPromotionPropsWagonsHubCateringWagon Wheels Author:Gary Busey
“It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldTryingActorsSceneDirectorsUnderstoodCamerasVery GoodBe YouLensesLightingGood DirectorsCameraman Author:Christopher Walken
“All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology.” TechnologyIndustryDirectorsInnovationCamerasDrivenCinemaScience And TechnologyMovie Director Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.” ThinkingWayNeedsFactsFilmUsedRoomsPayAttentionDirectorsDrawsShotsCamerasVery GoodPay AttentionEditingGood Sense Author:Jason Reitman
“Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.” WritingDoeCharacterActionFilmSceneDirectorsCamerasScriptsManageParticipantsProtagonistsMain CharactersFilm DirectorsGonzo Journalism Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.” FeelsArtActionTeamEffectsDirectorsCamerasDecadesCraftsChoreographyHong KongCinematicChoreographers Author:Donnie Yen
“At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.” TryingYearsJobsGivenCareersTvsDirectorsMessagesNewsCamerasManagersFortyForty Years Old Author:Mika Brzezinski
“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.” InspirationalMatterMotivationalNamesStarsFriendsDirectorsPicksCamerasBudgetsFilmmakerFilmmakingFeesCheesyNegotiatingFilm SchoolMovie DirectorFilm Students Book:James Cameron: Interviews Source: James Cameron: Interviews
“I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]” ThinkingWritingPersonsI CanIdeasCharacterActionActorsWrittenDependsDirectorsThirdsCamerasTechniqueObjectivesSubtleClueTrust MeLiedViewpointsClumsyCinematicThird PersonYes You CanHe LiedYou Can Trust Me Author:George R. R. Martin
“Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from.” WritingSaidWantedAsksFeltWonderAudienceSeaMiddleDirectorsCamerasSongwritingLegendaryAnecdotesHitchcockLifeboats Author:Paul Zollo
“Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.” LittlesPersonsSometimesFilmBitsWatchesDirectorsCamerasShoesCrewLightingSouvenirs Author:Jean Reno
“The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.” FilmActorsWonderCollegeDirectorsTheaterCamerasMovieDepartmentFilmmaking80sIntegrating Author:Eric Stoltz
“I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'” PeopleWantYearsHas BeensHardBeautifulFacesFightingActorsWinningStarsRealizingForgetBoysCuttingMinutesFrontsDirectorsCamerasMiserableInstantBeautiful FaceI Will WinPretty Boy Author:Alain Delon
“I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.” MovingCan DoDirectorsCamerasAweLenses Author:Matthew Gray Gubler
“In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.” HumansEyeWantedHuman BeingsActingAudienceMovementDirectorsCamerasMovedDramaticSubtleHitchcock Author:Bruce Dern