film making quotes

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

When I make a film – I direct my own film, I write my own script – that’s what I want to hear from the audience. ‚Oh, thank you, Jackie!‘

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don’t have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

For ‚Star Wars‘ I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

I kind of make a film for myself to sort of express myself.

Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.