Joseph Kosinski
Joseph Kosinski
Joseph Kosinskiis an American television commercial and feature film director best known for his computer graphics and computer generated imagery work. He made his big-screen directorial debut with the Disney Digital 3-D science fiction film Tron: Legacy, the sequel to the 1982 film Tron. His previous work has primarily been with CGI related television commercials including the "Starry Night" commercial for Halo 3 and the award-winning "Mad World" commercial for Gears of War...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth3 May 1974
CountryUnited States of America
Any film is a collaborative process, you've got thousands and thousands of people working on it.
Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.
I love movies that ask big questions but don't necessarily answer everything. I like people walking out thinking about something.
You never want to intentionally make a confusing movie.
It's important to listen to those around you, and ultimately you have to decide which path you're going to go down.
Obviously, there are lots of lessons to be learned on a first movie.
For me the Blu-ray version is kind of the definitive version of the movie.
Certainly there's pressure while your making the movie.
You want the film to be critically successful - you certainly want the film to be financially successful so that you can...well, because that's how movies like this are made, you know, they need to make money. But as a director, you can only make the movie that you want to make.
I think that while you're making the film it's important to just keep your eye on the ball and make the best movie you can, and then realize that it's out of your control.
I was always looking for a career that could combine my creative interests with my technical side, and it ends up directing films is the perfect combination.
The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.
I don't wear glasses, so I like the idea of not having to put them on to watch a movie. It's a hard barrier to get beyond.
I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.