Quotes About Creativity

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I would see a movie and think: 'I'm gonna make that movie.'

In the world of independent filmmaking, you're never quite sure what's happening when and where.

A big part of my filmmaking is that I can go somewhere new and, visually, be excited by it.

I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking.

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.

I feel so part of the filmmaking community. It's amazing how much people support each other.

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

I love the team aspect of filmmaking.

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

I'm not trying to prove myself a great filmmaker. I don't know much about filmmaking anyway. I'm trying my hand at it to see if I'm any good.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

Filmmaking is like any kind of art form. You have to try to figure it out, and you're going to do that by trying.

Success and failure are a part of filmmaking.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

Filmmaking is never easy as long as you continue learning from the process.

It's always better to make a hero than lean on one. My goal is to emulate China in the filmmaking business, not Los Angeles.

I think it's really important that you don't get caught up in the way the filmmaking community isolates you and the way your life ends up being.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.