The script is so key to making a good movie. But everything is against you when you’re making a movie: the logistics of putting a crew out where you need to go, whether the light is fading; if the weather’s not right, something’s wrong. Wes Ball Read Quote
My job is to kind of nudge them. Who said it, where, like, ‘90% of the job is casting,’ so all I do is try to come to set and focus on getting all the best shots to cover the story; that’s really it. Wes Ball Read Quote
I have a few filmmaker friends who are known for shooting super-fast, and they say that you don’t have the time to over-think things and how that helps things out creatively. Wes Ball Read Quote
For me personally, when I was a kid, that’s like the stuff I wanted to watch – all the R-rated stuff. Wes Ball Read Quote
Jurassic Park’ is probably the movie that got me wanting to make movies. It’s fun, but it’s not totally gruesome. Wes Ball Read Quote
We storyboard a lot, but I love when we are just going in there and just, almost on the fly, making stuff and discovering moments. It’s just fantastic, where you can really go in there and be creative and everything. Wes Ball Read Quote
I had this project called ‘Ruin’ in my head for six years or so. This really big, really ambitious sci-fi thing. It’s kind of my ‘Star Wars’. I’m trying to achieve what ‘Star Wars’ did for me as a kid. Wes Ball Read Quote
I always wanted to do a very fun, adventurous kind of car chase, and the opening of ‘Ruin’ is essentially like the ‘Star Wars’ trench run. Wes Ball Read Quote
My background is in VFX, and I know from experience that the best VFX are when you have something real in the frame that you can either extend or work off of. It was really important to get as much as possible in camera, for real. Wes Ball Read Quote
When you keep things responsible and manageable, you can make some interesting movies that you maybe couldn’t make otherwise. Wes Ball Read Quote
