When your characters are really living they tell you what they do.
Some people live, eat and breathe art, and they love acting and filmmaking. I've got other loves. I love animals. I love teaching. I love kids. That's always something in the back of my mind.
To be in a movie directed by Wolfgang Petersen, and a movie that had a large budget. . . I got a taste of what really good filmmaking could be.
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.
Why I'm interested in filmmaking is because a moving image is very, very powerful when it comes to changing human behavior.
The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy,. . . so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker. ' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.
If you think about it, episodic filmmaking has not been something that people have really done.
If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.
Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.
It was amazing how much rehearsal helped with the performance - it was almost a theatrical approach to filmmaking.
Sure, they were simple desk lamps with only a minimal amount of movement, but you could immediately tell that Luxo Jr. was a baby, and that the big one was his mother. In that short little film, computer animation went from a novelty to a serious tool for filmmaking.
Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many different people who come in to host the show and you get thrown into so many situations and learn how to think on your feet, so filmmaking actually feels slow, in a good way.
Ben Affleck inspired me and reignited my love for acting and filmmaking. It was a big part of getting me to a place where I felt inspired to make my own movie.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.