Shoot Quotes

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

You didn't have to go on location if you could just shoot down City Hall, LA.

I still haven't figured out how to have fun on a shoot.

If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.

I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

On Fantastic Mr. Fox, I got used to working with animated storyboards as a way of planning for the shoot. We did a lot of sequences that way with this movie. Partly as a result of that, I decided to build more sets in order to do certain shots.

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!