Joe Swanberg Quotes

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  • I'm usually two projects ahead. It's hard for me because I don't have a really long attention span.

    Two   Long   Attention  
    Source: collider.com
  • Just because you married doesn't mean you're not an individual person with your own wants and desires and needs.

    Mean   Desire   Needs  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general. 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 director, a cinematographer. Basically, I like to help and be involved, so anything anybody asks me to do, my first reaction is to say "Yes."

    Art   Trying   Acting  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • My directing is really weird. Everything is based on whether it's working or not. I don't try to fix something if it's not working, I'll just change it.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • I think there's been a gigantic shift in the way we talk to each other, and the way that we communicate with each other. So as a filmmaker, the stuff's always been really interesting to me, and I sort of considered a lot of my films horror films, the ones that were relationship dramas, because I feel like it was very easy to look at modern communication and the Internet and cell phones and all that stuff as horror movies, basically.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • There's a lot of cultural pressure around specialness and seeing your family. I feel like everything gets jacked up a little bit because of all of these expectations of love and family bonding.

    Source: collider.com
  • [Having bigger budget] allowed me to be a full-time filmmaker for a couple months and not have to have a day job and be balancing a bunch of other stuff. It allowed me to bring in all these people from different parts of the country. It allows me to have an actual food budget, where we could eat healthy for the month we were shooting. It makes all the difference in the world.

    Country   Jobs   Couple  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • It's really easy to finish a movie and sort of immediately dive into the next one, because I love working with actors so much and being on set, my inclination is to try to get back to that as soon as possible. There's just never much of a gap.

    Trying   Actors   Gaps  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The more that I work with people that I don't know, the more I invite somebody in who's potentially going to really hate being there.

    Source: collider.com
  • I want to communicate with people, and I want to make something that works, and that people like. I'm never purposefully trying to be antagonistic or shocking or anything that would push an audience away. I'm always hoping to reach as many people as I can.

    People   Trying   Want  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • A lot of the people I'm working with are not actors, or it's their first time in a movie. I'm not trying to shape performances, coax performances out of them. It's more like I want to put them in situations that naturally work or allow them to be themselves. If it's not happening, I'll just completely switch it up, rather than trying to make it work.

    People   Trying   Actors  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • Am I doing the movie because I'm really excited about it and want to do it, or am I doing it because it seems like it's a big budget or something like that? It would still have to be the right thing, because my lifestyle's really cheap and I'm able to exist doing smaller movies, so if I'm able to do that, I'm happy to do that. But if something bigger came along that seems really cool, then that would be great.

    Would Be   Want   Able  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • I don't have an agent. I don't take meetings or anything like that, so I don't really know what's out there. I'm not closed off to anything, but I'd just have to ask myself at every step if it's worth it.

    Agents   Steps   Meetings  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • The really cool thing is all about being able to take your movie around and show it. It puts you in direct contact with people who are like-minded and interested in similar things. I think the film festival circuit has certainly helped to foster the community.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • I've done a lot of movies that don't have any music in them, and I've always sort of had a kind of wary attitude about music because it can be so manipulative, and also because with pop music, I feel like everybody kind of has their own relationship to songs.

    Song   Attitude   Done  
  • I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

    Source: collider.com
  • I'm interested in taking things from my relationship that I don't see on screen - or that I feel like that could be useful or helpful if it were out in the open - and trying to put that in the movies as much as possible.

    Trying   Helpful   Feels  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some of that stuff, to see if I could do a movie with some of those people. And I don't really write scripts myself, but if I read a script I thought was really great, I would totally be up for doing a more traditional movie. It's just that I don't exist in that world. right now.

    Writing   People   World  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • We're looking for a certain kind of realism or naturalism, and we go about it in different ways, but I think we're all striving for the same end result, which is to capture the patterns of conversations and how people interact in a very realistic way.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • I do some freelance web design stuff. I taught a directing class for this not-for-profit organization here in Chicago a couple months ago. I wrote a thing for Filmmaker Magazine a couple months ago. Occasionally, I'll get to go speak to students at a university and make a little money that way, which is great. I really like doing that.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • During improvisations, I'll hear people bringing back up details from something I heard about at breakfast or something somebody was saying that they were thinking about, and it informs a rewriting of a scene.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I always loved the work. As soon as I finished a movie, the most exciting thing to do was to try to jump into the next one. How I feel about it is that I learned a lot, so I'm grateful that I learned so much, at such a young age, rather than in my more adult professional career.

    Grateful   Careers   Age  
    Source: collider.com
  • There's something really nice about missing the person you're with. To have someone be apart enough to force independence and to also look forward to seeing that person.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

    Eye   Years   Film  
    Source: collider.com
  • I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than many Hollywood movies]. At the same time, I think everyone who's making movies hopes to appeal to the widest audience possible.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most written. But all of that is in pursuit of similar things, and I think that we kind of recognize that in each other.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • Rather than look at a marriage as two people morphing into one thing, you could see two individuals who are choosing to form a partnership.

    Two   People   Looks  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • It's great to meet people in a setting where it's really conducive to hanging out and having fun. Most film festivals are really low-stress, and good times to hang out with buddies and talk about what you're working on and come up with new ideas.

    Fun   Stress   Ideas  
    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
  • Most of my horror inspiration is really older stuff and really new stuff.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I do like the idea of doing something different, maybe doing something that's more like a genre film. And there are certain actors that I'd like to work with that would go along with working with a bigger budget.

    Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com
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