Shane Carruth Quotes About Film

Quotes about: Film

• Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

  Shane Carruth

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adventure

• Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.

  Shane Carruth

  Photography, Looks, Snapshots

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.

  Shane Carruth

  Mistake, People, Cameras

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• Film is a collaborative process, absolutely, but I am a control freak.

  Shane Carruth

  Freak, Film, Process

  "Director's Cut: Shane Carruth ('Upstream Color')". Interview with Jordan Hoffman, www.mtv.com. April 2, 2013.

• My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story. I saw the core part of the plot. But if I ever take another look at it then I can see that there was some more stuff going on in there that I didn't realize.

  Shane Carruth

  Plot, Looks, Stories

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• My favorite films are the ones that I walk away from and I know I saw a story.

  Shane Carruth

  Stories, Saws, Film

  "DVD RE-RUN INTERVIEW: Shane Carruth on 'Primer'; The Lessons of a First-Timer". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. April 18, 2005.

• The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

  Shane Carruth

  Important, Lines, Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

• I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

  Shane Carruth

  Matter, Film, Permission

• If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.

  Shane Carruth

  Trying, Pieces, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

  Shane Carruth

  Heart, Plot, Littles

  "Shane Carruth on swimming upriver (and self-distributing) in ‘Upstream Color’". Interview with Guy Lodge, uproxx.com. April 16, 2013.

• I love to work. It's the idea of having someone else tell you how to make your film or how to sell it - that's the part I can't really deal with. I would rather do 1,000 things that are work than deal with one thing that's a political problem.

  Shane Carruth

  Ideas, Political, Problem

  "Shane Carruth, Indiedom's purist, on new movies and old regrets". Interview with Steven Zeitchik, articles.latimes.com. April 10, 2013.

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