Paul Hirsch famous quotes

The shooting of the movie is the truth part and the editing of the movie is the lying part, the deceit part
-- Paul Hirsch

#Lying #Editing #Shooting

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.
-- Paul Hirsch

#Certain #Approach

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.
-- Paul Hirsch

#Careers #Type

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.
-- Paul Hirsch

#Keys #Track #Sound

When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.
-- Paul Hirsch

#Watches #Pace #Influence

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

When something important is going on, silence is a lie.

Do I do as false prophets do and puff air into simulacra? Am I a Sorcerer--like Macbeth's witches--mixing truth and lies in incandescent shapes? Or am I a kind of very minor scribe of a prophetic Book--telling such truth as in me lies, with aid of such fiction as I acknowledge mine, as Prospero acknowledged Caliban.

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing.

Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel.