Andy Muschietti Quotes

I always thought the writing process for movies and TV shows was just a blueprint. The making of it was the thing.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

First hand on 'Go Goa Gone' I learnt how to write on final drafts, how the process works.

You can't just express yourself and it becomes a movie. You have to get beyond that.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

The creative process on 'Margaret' was incredibly satisfying. I loved the cast; I had a great time writing the script. I liked making the movie. Believe it or not, I actually like editing the movie. It was all the rest of it that was such a nightmare.

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

I really wish it would only take two hours to make a two-hour movie.

I started acting when I was really young. I knew I wanted to be in the industry in other ways. I knew that I wanted to do more than just act. I don't know that I knew it was screenwriting, but I just knew that I wanted to be involved.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

There's something about taking a film from concept to script, through production, and then to see the final thing happening in the edit phase. It's almost like a miracle in the making.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.