62 Quotes by Sean Durkin

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

I'm a believer in film school.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it’s like a coach-player relationship.

When people leave cults, they don’t know that they left a cult.

You know, when you’re isolated on set for like a month, people like to get rowdy.

In editing, it’s amazing how you choose the in and out points. What you cut on is everything for creating tension. It’s amazing how expanding a shot by five seconds can just ruin the tension.

A big fear of working with an actor that’s never been a lead in a film before is that you’re going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I won’t rewrite on set, but I’ll just trim the fat.