Joseph Kosinski Quotes

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

It's a fine line to find that balance: to show people enough to give them the promise of something unique, and something they want to see, but at the same time make sure that when they show up for the movie, they're surprised by what they eventually get.

Go out and make something that reflects your interests, your taste, and your ideas. No one will pay you to make something until you have a few things you can show that you've directed. I got my start by making short films on my own.

Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

An established property can be a blessing and a challenge. On one hand you have all those fans of the original that you can pick up with and continue on with but then you have a lot of people out there who haven't seen the first and might feel like this isn't a movie for them because of that.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that's the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us all the same tools that places like Digital Domain and ILM used to make features films or special effects. They gave us all these digital tools like Alias and Mya and Soft Image and all these kind of high-end computers, so I came out of architecture school knowing how to use all that stuff. And I started making short films at night.

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.

You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.