Quotes About Filmmaking

I look back on my life and it's 95% running around trying to raise money to make movies and 5% actually making them. It's no way to live.

There's no way you can shoot low-budget stuff on lots of locations. It's just a practicality thing because every time you move, it costs time and money.

I think there's only one or two films where I've had all the financial support I needed. All the rest, I wish I'd had the money to shoot another ten days.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

Some people make movies and think, "Well, I'll just keep asking for more money if this isn't enough." And then there are other people, like Clint Eastwood, who always come in under budget.

I'm dreaming about making movies for eight weeks, because it's a luxury. But time is money. That's the reality.

I don't think you need $35 million bucks to make a movie. I think what people should do is make a lot more movies for a lot less money. You can really do it.

Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

I washed dishes so I could make movies. it was never a way for me to make money.

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.

As a filmmaker, I ask questions but don't have answers. Moviemaking is a philosophical exploration. I invite the audience to come on the journey and discover what they think and feel.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I can make a better living as an actor than I can as a director. Though I certainly would prefer to be directing movies.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

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

With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.

I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

My philosophy is to make movies with the biggest possible budget that will allow it to be made in an independent fashion.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communication. It's not as though its a study of fear or any of that stuff.