Amber Sealey Quotes

United Kingdom, Film Director
1975

Amber Sealey is a British and American director, writer, producer, and actor. Sealey is known for her feature films A Plus D, How to Cheat, and No Light and No Land Anywhere. How to Cheat premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won the Best Performance Award. How to Cheat also won Best Narrative Film and Best Acting at the BendFilm Festival.No Light and No Land Anywhere, Sealey’s third feature, is Executive Produced by Miranda July and premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival where it won a Special Jury Award. It also won the IndieVision Breakthrough Feature Film Award at the Twin Cities Film Festival.

Also known as Writer, Producer

When you're shooting a low-budget movie you're never just the director: you're also in the catering department, and hair and make-up and a part-time grip. I can't even imagine the luxury of not having to keep an eye on every aspect of production while directing.

Amber Sealey
- Hair
- Eye
- Imagine
The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.

Amber Sealey
- Prove
- Sells
- Mettle

I usually cast myself in things because acting is how I best relate to artistic impulses. It's what I've wanted to do since I was a child, so a scene usually plays itself out in my head with me performing it. And if I cast myself that's one less person I have to pay, one less person I have to explain my vision to, one less person I have to worry about.

Amber Sealey
- Children
- Worry
- Vision
I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

Amber Sealey
- Style
- Film
- Gains
The money for my movies mostly come from talented and generous friends willing to work for almost nothing. As a producer, my job is to get as many people to give me things for free as I could. And most people are kind, and they know how hard this kind of thing is, so they are willing to help how they can, and reduce their fees how they can.

Amber Sealey
- People
- Giving
- Kind