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I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.

Write dialogue that supports the situation and the characters, as you find them.

Jeff Nichols

There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.

Jeff Nichols

Most film productions, when they're based at a place, they get, like, a 30-mile radius or a 30-minute radius to get out of the town. And once you go past that, your day starts to become shorter, and you have to start paying your drivers more, and everybody just gets paid more, and you have less time to shoot, and everything costs more.

Jeff Nichols

There's a reason why I use film. It's because it's the best representation of how our eyes work. I really believe that. I think it's better than digital.

Jeff Nichols

I'll say this: I think from a directing standpoint, 'Loving' is my most accomplished film. Strictly from a technical, directing point of view.

Jeff Nichols

I really don't care about plot. I really, really don't.

Jeff Nichols

I thought 'Mud' would be such an easy film for people to understand.

Jeff Nichols

Making movies is really hard. It's a very complex process, with many, many variables.

Jeff Nichols

Financing for 'Shotgun Stories' was initiated with money from close friends and family. This is where the money to go into production came from. After production, a company called 'Upload Films' came on board and provided post-production funds and services. In both instances, people were taking a gamble on us.

Jeff Nichols

I want all of my films to be grounded in reality, and I think 'Midnight Special' is the most grounded film I've ever made, in spite of its genre.

Jeff Nichols

When my son was 8 months old, he had a febrile seizure. You know, if you're in the first year - my wife and I refer to it as the 'darkness.' You're just underwater.

Jeff Nichols

My connection to 'Aquaman' came out through the Sony hack. It had no relationship to reality. I was not on that film. I was not hired to work on that film. I had been talking to Warner Bros. about it.

Jeff Nichols

I think Warner Bros. are probably some of the best people in marketing films in the world.

Jeff Nichols

My stated goal as a filmmaker is to feel something. Is to have a palpable emotion in my life, carry it through the gauntlet of the filmmaking process and try and have it land for an audience at some point during the viewing experience. That to me is successful filmmaking.

Jeff Nichols

Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.

Jeff Nichols

I'm a director because I directed a movie. And if I have any advice for people, it's, 'Go write something; go direct it. If that's what you have a desire to do, go do it. If the movie stinks, just put it on the shelf and try to do it again.'

Jeff Nichols

Definitely when you give a script to an actor, it's like dropping a capsule in water and the fizzing starts. That's when the thing starts to live and breathe.

Jeff Nichols

'Midnight Special' is, like 'Starman', a government chase film - in the government chase film genre - about a boy who has special powers and the government agents' quest to find him.

Jeff Nichols

The real cost is always more than just the money you shell out.

Jeff Nichols

Your whole life is changed with that first child. Your social behaviors are all turned upside down, you're sleep deprived, but eight months in, my son had this seizure, and it just woke me up to the idea that, oh, no, this can end. And it can end in a way that will destroy you forever.

Jeff Nichols

I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?

Jeff Nichols

What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themselves from the political conversation. They did not have an agenda. They did not want to be martyrs. They did not want to be symbols of a movement.

Jeff Nichols

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

Jeff Nichols

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

Jeff Nichols

Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn't do. Things that are inorganic.

Jeff Nichols

Whenever I write, I try and approach my stories from some kind of universal theme or idea or emotion.

Jeff Nichols

I think only the movies you do remember are the films you had an emotional connection to.

Jeff Nichols

'Indiana Jones' was me growing up. I could quote lines from 'Tango and Cash' as much as I could quote lines from 'The Searchers'.

Jeff Nichols

We've gotten to a point where it costs so much money to make a movie that directors and filmmakers feel they have to make sure that everybody gets it. And that's an unfortunate development, I think, in a lot of narratives floating around in the film industry.

Jeff Nichols

Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.

Jeff Nichols

I had two DVDs my junior year. One was 'Fletch' and one was 'Goodfellas,' and I watched those movies so much. I just remember eating Ramen noodles and watching 'Goodfellas.'

Jeff Nichols

Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.

Jeff Nichols

I outline and outline and outline, and then I'm very specific about the stuff I write. That's my process.

Jeff Nichols

If you want someone to show up and execute your script for you, seriously, there are a lot of great people out there. Don't call me.

Jeff Nichols

My characters are not thinking about the act breaks. They're thinking about what they need to do to move forward. As long as I focus on that, the story starts to progress. As soon as I think, 'We're 20 pages in, something better blow up,' we're in trouble.

Jeff Nichols

I grew up in Arkansas, and I went to Little Rock Central High, which was the site of a desegregation crisis in '57. I graduated in '97.

Jeff Nichols