Victor Levin Quotes & Sayings

When your characters are not white hats or black hats but something in between, you do have to be very careful about your details. So, that takes a while. I'm not interested in white hats and black hats. I don't think that's how people are in real life. — Victor Levin

There are people who are put on this earth to do everything. — Victor Levin

I think everybody has a little rule follower and a little rule breaker in them. — Victor Levin

You want to surround yourself with people who are as dedicated to their discipline as you are to yours and let them do what they do. — Victor Levin

Sometimes you go against what they say because you believe in it anyway. — Victor Levin

You're not always right. You're often wrong. But at least you're looking at it as objectively as you can with as much experience as you can in the moment and saying, "Yeah, I think it's funny" or "No, I don't think it's funny yet." — Victor Levin

It's always hard, but it's always fun to attack a premise that you think is interesting. It does take a few drafts for sure. — Victor Levin

I knew I wanted to work in Cinemascope because I find it much more beautiful just in terms of the shape of the screen, the wider image, and it's also less like television, which is important. — Victor Levin

Your favorite story, whatever it might be, was written for one reader — Victor Levin

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all. — Victor Levin

Believe me, you can be in the middle of a beautiful take and the next thing you know you're awash in people crossing the street. You can't even find your actors. — Victor Levin

My job, as I see it, is to give you a window into another world and another story, and then to be as graceful as I can so that you don't feel my work or the editor's work or the lens or the light or anything. — Victor Levin

You learn to do your best writing on story rather than off story. Very often at the beginning of their careers, writers including me do their best dialogue writing off story - the best lines, the best observations - but they haven't got enough to do with the plot to stay in. — Victor Levin