Mark Romanek Quotes & Sayings

“The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half or two year commitment and wake up every morning at 5 to go deal with a whole day full of problems to get it up on the screen. You really need passion.”

“Actually, the British boarding school experience turns out to be not that exotic.”

“I have these ideas that people go 'Oh, that's cool. I'd pay to see it, but I'm not gonna give you $25 million.'”

“Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.”

“Here's my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break.”

“I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.”

“In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.”

“All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.”

“From a personal standpoint, I'd say that, yeah, seeing how quickly children grow, you realize how fast life goes by.”

“I think that I've learned to relax, and trust in and hire very talented people, and trust in their abilities a little more.”