I don't know if I would call it therapy, but filmmaking is really the only thing I know how to do. For me, making movies is a way to bring on change for myself, and I really enjoy that part.
This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.
The biggest lesson that I have learnt from everyone is that there are no rules in filmmaking.
I do think it's possible for me to go back to the studio, and for a lot of women filmmakers to be going back into studio filmmaking with a different sense of their own agency, and a different sense of the respect that they can command. When you asked the question about whether women want to be making big studio movies, the answer is almost always yes. It's just, how do they want to be treated? What is that experience going to be? And if you know the experience is gonna be shitty going into it, I personally am at a place where I'm not willing to punish myself any longer.
I view filmmaking as a director's medium.
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.
However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.
Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.
Filmmaking is something I have to do. It's not something I particularly want to do.
Talent is less important in filmmaking than patience.
One of the things I've always tried to do in filmmaking is that you don't tell the story, you try to show it.
A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.
In lower budget filmmaking, everything is a favor. You're pushing everybody, all the time. You're trying to get the best out of it that you can, and it has to be a labor of love, or you can't get it done.
I mean, '8 ½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.
As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.
I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.
Filmmaking is a real craft.
The "If you build it, they will come" approach to filmmaking has always been helpful to me.
It seemed like there were so many options in filmmaking before. If they don't want to make it, well okay, there's a hundred other places we can try. I'm not a producer and I don't even know the places my producer goes to, thankfully. But I think there are far fewer options now to releasing a movie theatrically or to getting the financing.
I've learned more, and I understand the process a bit better now. I can try to see how long I want to take in each aspect of the filmmaking process, and then arrive at around the two-year end mark.
Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
Saw # Birdman . Such singular, audacious filmmaking. Can't stop thinking about the ending.
I really like Olivier Assayas filmmaking. He always has this global - economy thing going on.
I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.
I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.
