My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.
I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a direc...
I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.
I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I jus...
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.
If you don't lose first you are not entitled to win.
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
Everyone loves the seventies because that's when movies were character-based, and you saw great characters and you saw very interesting filmmaking. There are interesting movies being made now, but it'...
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 pu...