Quotes About Passion

As a filmmaker what you can hope to do is doing what drives you.

When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

I only want to work with interesting filmmakers.

We've always wanted to be filmmakers.

Film is something I've always loved since I was very young. In fact, I actually wanted to study to be a filmmaker when I was younger.

I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

I'm always excited when I can discover new filmmakers.

When I started making films, like almost every filmmaker, I think, you're just so excited to be able to make a movie that you'll do anything.

Hal Ashby is one of my favorite filmmakers.

I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to be a filmmaker, and then I kind of drifted over to the acting side after that. I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.

I want to work with amazing filmmakers and tell important stories, and if I have to audition to do that, I will.

I wanted to be a filmmaker since I was a kid. I always did things that took me a little closer to that.

I was blessed enough to know that I wanted to be a filmmaker when I was a kid, the first time I realized that that was something people did for a living.

We make movies to endorse our own personal feelings. I am not, in fact, a documentary filmmaker. I've got my personal beliefs, and I'm ready to put them out on the table.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.