Quotes About Inspiration

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Oh how Shakespeare would have loved cinema!

I even get inspired by movies that aren't very good, because there's always something good in movies that are collectively thought of as a failure. There's good in everything, I find.

I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.

The best part of making the movies... learning from the pros themselves.

No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.

There are so many books and movies I like I never mention specific ones.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

I love movies. Movies have influenced me as a writer.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

I love animated movies in general. I like making them.

My movies, in general, I have the impression that when they finish of course they're never originally what you had in mind.

Arnaud Desplechin invented me as an actor. I never imagined Id be acting in movies.

I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.

The score is in your subconscious. Sit down long enough at a keyboard and it will come out.

I used to send away for eight-minute Super 8 movies of various Ray Harryhausen scenes advertised on the back of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland' magazine.

Little by little, the look of the land changes by the men we admire.

Why wait for the movie tomorrow, when you can read the book today!

Dreams were the first movies.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.