Cinema Quotes by Mark Romanek

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

— Mark Romanek

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…

— Mark Romanek

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

— Mark Romanek

I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking…

— Mark Romanek

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.'

— Mark Romanek

The trick is falling in love with something enough, and being excited enough by something, to want to make that year and a half…

— Mark Romanek

I'm of the school that I will direct you if you request it - if you have a question.

— Mark Romanek

I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or…

— Mark Romanek

I do believe that there are auteurs, in the sense that there are filmmakers with very strong voices and their voices are communicated on…

— Mark Romanek

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

— Mark Romanek

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

— Mark Romanek

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could…

— Mark Romanek