James Marsh Quotes & Sayings

“I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.”

“I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge - which is mathematical, essentially - can have a playful visual element to it.”

“I can be prickly and difficult on set.”

“I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.”

“I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.”

“The issue often with films is how it works with money and trying to get a visible movie star presence in the film.”

“The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.”

“There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.”

“Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.”

“Black holes are pretty scary when you ponder them. They seem nihilistic, infinitely destructive on an inconceivable scale, notwithstanding the ideas of Hawking radiation.”