Joshua Leonard Quotes

"We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Film, Moments)

"The first thing I do when I read a part is see if I can identify emotionally with a character. If I make that connection, everything else is just working on knowing their life circumstances and manifesting those through practice and research."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Life, Character, Circumstances, Connection, First, Practice, Research)

"Sony could have $50 million and a sound stage and A-list actors and never make the same film. The constraints on this film became the essence of this film, became the power of this film."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Power, Actors, Film, Sound)

"Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Joy, Pain)

"Mike and Heather and I rapped once or twice in New York and then we all wound up on a train together on the way out to Maryland. I think it was about a month and a half from the time we got cast until the time we shot the thing."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Time)

"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Movies, Development, Character, Connection, Film, Horror, Value)

"We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Self)

"I would love to direct some day. It's a good job for a control freak."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Love, Control, Day, Job)

"I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Faith, Will)

"I think as long as there are folks on the fringe who want to make movies, the indie scene will still be around. I do think it's getting harder to get them seen though."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Movies, Want, Will)

"Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: American, Cinema, Jobs, Reality, Right, Sense)

"Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Being)

"Actors are such an insecure breed."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Actors)

"I'm really proud of Blair Witch Project as a film, but as far as the cultural phenomenon of it - that was just weird luck."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Film, Luck, Project)

"I've done almost 20 films and I still worry about not finding the next one."
- Joshua Leonard
(Related: Worry)