Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr. famous quotes

For me, directing is sort of like cooking or something. You know that you're making this interesting recipe while you're putting all the ingredients together, you can never oversee what it's gonna taste exactly. So while you're doing that, you're tasting.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Interesting #Cooking #Together

Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Waiting #Horror #Pending

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Actors #Logical #Scene

Scenes change while shooting. Nowadays, while you're shooting the movie, you're cutting at the same time.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Cutting #Shooting #Scene

I just hate digital. Looks ugly. Even if you were to shoot this anamorphic, which looks great, I just don't like it, it feels like video.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Hate #Looks #Ugly

Working on a set and working with actors, that's all the same. The moment you're doing it and you're in the moment, you don't have time to think about it. You just have to make it as good as you possibly can on the moment.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Thinking #Actors #Moments

As long as I stay true to what I believe is a good movie and what is my vision, that's all I can do.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Believe #Long #Good Movie

While shooting a movie if I can't find what I want, then I keep going until I find my moment.
-- Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

#Shooting #Want #Moments

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be already interesting or remarkable; and, secondly, by a sort of natural reaction, to undervalue the true state of the case, when we do discover that our notions have surpassed those that were really tenable

That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?

Cooking is the showy side of domesticity.

Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe.

From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.