The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.
Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture.
Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.
But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.
Daniel Craig is brilliant as Bond: there is no question about that. But it's a different Bond. It's the cross pollination of 'The Bourne Identity' and 'James Bond;' that kind of style of filmmaking.
I think that when you're making a story... that's based on somebody, the filmmaker has his duty to do his research.
I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
When I started my filmmaking journey 17 years ago, I honestly didn't know what a documentary film was.
You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.
Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor... The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.'
If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.
Aristotle wrote the 'Poetics' 2,400 years ago. It's really an instruction manual for aspiring filmmakers. It's as valid today as it was then.
