Joseph Kosinski Quotes

There are a lot of limitations so you have to ultimately focus on what you think the most important storyline is.

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

Listen, whatever makes the movie better. That's the attitude you have to have.

Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.

I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

You won't believe how many people have congratulated me around the world for shooting a movie in 2D. It's bizarre. It's the strangest thing.

Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.

For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie.

Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.

I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.

It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.

I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.

Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.

In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

I'd like to have the script in a much better place from day one of shooting, rather than trying to continue to work on it while you shoot it. I think those are lessons you learn on any film.

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

I think some people are under the impression that you can simply just shoot it on blue, and then it's all done in post. But no, you really need to understand the pipeline, from beginning to end.

That's the tricky thing these days: being able to surprise people.

Of course there are always exceptions, but opinions are not to be feared.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

Disney's clearly in the business of doing giant tent pole movies based on properties that they own. And that's what they should be doing because they're great at doing that.

I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.

You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.

For me, I feel like, between 'Tron' and 'Oblivion,' I've gotten to fulfill my 'Star Wars' fantasies, in a way.

I think the excitement of movies is discovering stuff you weren't expecting, and I hope to preserve that.