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Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.
You can either be a movie star or an actor. I'm an actor.
I've been so involved with TV shows, I've been unavailable for films, which is my dream.
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
I love film and I love the film business. And I don't think there's any better way, with my personality, than being a producer which is a little bit of a control freak.
To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
I like very much to do movies.
I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.
I'd been an actor in high school, and when I got to college, it was all about film.
I always wanted to be in movies.
I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics.
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies.
I just remember when I came out of film school - and I loved film school - that the industry was such a mystery. How to break in, and once you are in, how to make a film; that is such a large undertaking. There are thousands of pitfalls.
Cinema is a world of imagination.
It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.
Hollywood ... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!
Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed.
Cinema is a worldwide phenomenon.
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
I love directing. I love creating things that I don't necessarily even have to be in. I like creating worlds. So I'm getting into writing movies and selling movies and television shows and creating worlds that then get to live beyond me.
I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.
I'm a huge movie nerd.
I've always wanted to make movies.
I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can.
The feature film business, the studio film business, feels to me like there's just nowhere else to go. It's like a record that's just skipping at the end, with the needle stuck in the run-out groove.
Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.
My chosen occupation isn't necessarily movie star; I see my chosen occupation as actor.
I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.
I think that I am a pornographer, meaning that I make movies based on what excites me and what I would like to see.
I like to think I'm making films in the film business where movies are making enough numbers for the studios to let me keep working, but you also want those films to have content that makes you proud you made the film. That's not easy, but it's a fun puzzle to figure out.
Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.
It [moviemaking] is like a dream. When you're dreaming, you make some very strange connections between some random stuff and random people.
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
I'm a huge film star ... but you have to hurry to the movies, because I usually die in the first 15 f
ing minutes. I'm the only guy I know who died in a f
ing Muppet movie.
I just love doing movies that I would want to see in theaters.
Although the film industry is a very unique melting pot of creative and business types, both for the good and the bad, I love being able to wake up everyday to play.
Entertainment and escapism - those are the bigger money-making films today.
Cinema is like dream.
Merchandising, merchandising, where the real money from the movie is made.
I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.
I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.
I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.
I've said this a million times. But I've always wanted to do movies.
I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.
Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
I'd say to anyone trying to break into the business: Don't just be interested in movies. Be interested in life. Be a person. Be in touch.
Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition.
Filmmaking can be a fine art.
Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?
I always wanted to make movies.
I just loved films. I knew I wanted to work on film, not video.
I think I can try the film world out for a while.
I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.
I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.
I love movies. I adore movies. I grew up on Steve McQueen and Clint Eastwood and Warren Beatty. The list goes on. Spencer Tracy. I wanted to be in movies.
I'm a film rat. I love being in front of a camera. I love being behind a camera. I love talking to the director. I love talking film.
I make pop culture.
As a filmmaker, I've sat on the other side, and I've watched when people I know have a film, and it's doing really well, and people are talking about it in all the trades, and everybody is excited about it, and I've always thought, 'Hmm, what would that be like?'
The magic of movie-making is that you get to fulfill your own dreams.
I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.
I love movies, I love being a part of them, and this is the one occupation I love living and playing in and stressing myself out over.
I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.
The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.
The film industry has become a universal medium exercising a profound influence on the development of people's attitudes and choices, and possessing a remarkable ability to influence public opinion and culture across all social and political frontiers.
I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.
I love movies. I mean, I really, really love movies.
I've always been really into movies, and I definitely thought I'd be involved with movies at some point.
The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
I long to make films. I'm dying to be inside the next film. I always hope there will be another film.
I've been in love with the cinema since childhood and it's a fantasy of mine to appear in a Hollywood movie.
I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.
Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.
I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].
I've been a film geek since I was a little kid and to start with an idea and then get a stack of papers with words on it called a script, then storyboarding the art, and you sit with these guys and now all the sudden it's a movie, and to see fans reactions to it when you put it out.
After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.
I strive to make movies I would enjoy.
I love film, and I love seeing movies on film.
Honestly, I want to do films. I want to make that move from actor to producer, like Will Smith.
I did important films when I was very young.
I like making films because I like to go into another world. I like to get lost into another world.
Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.
I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.
I'm really interested in making movies that people see: I've made a lot of independent films and it's really depressing when no one sees them.
When I first came to Hollywood, I used to dream of doing films and escaping television.
Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.
In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses.
Making movies can be a creative exciting project for director and rest of staff.
You do T.V. and movies to make the money, and then you do theatre for the love of it.
I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.
I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.
I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.