Film production quotes

When I’m making an American film, it’s more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, ‚What are you doing!? Tell me first!‘ There are so many restrictions.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

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.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

On ‚Mystic River,‘ I had to cut my salary and everyone else’s to get it made.

You just don’t know when you get in the editing room what you will need as a link or a tool for a transition. If you’re in a room, and there’s a kettle boiling, get a shot of it. Don’t worry if people think you’re nuts.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

Other than obvious errors like forgetting a line, often I can’t see any difference between take one and take 20.

In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It’s such a liberating experience.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.