Mick Garris Professions : Filmmaker Born : December 4, 1951 Browse All Authors Top 10 quotes by Mick Garris The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are one of a kind people. You know, they have a vision. They may be influenced by other filmmakers, but they don't work with them on anything. Mick Garris vision kind people My first teacher was Steven Spielberg. I worked on Amazing Stories. That was my first job, as a writer and as a story editor. Watching him and his command of the tools of filmmaking, and his admiration for writing and the story itself, was the greatest lesson I ever had. Mick Garris writing teacher jobs The whole point is you're telling a story to an audience. So when there's no audience, it's like cinematic masturbation. Mick Garris masturbation audience It's exciting not knowing what I'm doing next, but it won't be long before I'm going to feel like I needed to be doing something, whatever it is. Mick Garris next knowing long Having been a singer in a band, back in my youth, music is really important to me. Mick Garris singers band important Fighting the wild branches of a haunted tree is not something that every actor is confident enough to attack, literally and figuratively. Mick Garris actors fighting tree The best actors in the world are the actors who don't keep the walls up all the time and allow themselves the potential to be embarrassed. Mick Garris wall actors world For me, it's important that a movie is the congregate of all art forms, from writing to art composition to music to performing. Trying to keep a balance of all those is what I think a director's job is. Mick Garris writing jobs art Obviously not a Stephen King level writer, but I'd written short stories and short fiction, from the time I was 12. Mick Garris kings stories fiction The only features I've done have been on the lower-budget end, for what they were. It's really all about getting the best people aboard and committing to doing the best work possible and prioritizing where your time is going to be spent. Mick Garris done ends people Similar Authors Burnie Burns filmmaker Brian Lindstrom filmmaker Brian Koppelman filmmaker Anne Fontaine filmmaker Avi Lewis filmmaker Ava DuVernay filmmaker All Authors
