Joseph Mazzello Quotes

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

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I love the art of filmmaking very much in all aspects.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

I've been having a lot of fun exploring different aspects of filmmaking, like writing and producing. There isn't a specific plan and I usually don't know what's going to be the next thing I do.

I considered going to film school; I took a course in film and was very interested in filmmaking as well as film writing.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I've always wanted to make movies.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

All the lessons you learn in film school from the people you hate are always the ones that are important. The lessons you think are great and thankful for never end up meaning anything to you.

You want to enjoy making a movie - it's a wonderful, collaborative thing.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

Filmmaking is a real craft.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I always wanted to be a feature filmmaker and tried to treat that experience as some sort of elite film school where I could learn the craft, and got paid to learn the craft.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

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

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

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

I'm interested in films, in directing.