Being Quotes by James Marsh

I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course…

— James Marsh

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…

— James Marsh

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

— James Marsh

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

— James Marsh

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be…

— James Marsh

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

— James Marsh

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.

— James Marsh

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.

— James Marsh

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

— James Marsh

I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era…

— James Marsh

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

— James Marsh

I love America, but I've now got two young kids and America has changed so much since 9/11 and Bush. It's beyond Orwellian. The…

— James Marsh