Dennis Hopper Quotes

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.

A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQueen, Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, and Cary Grant.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Movies are my bread and butter and my inherent passion.

I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.

I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.

I like all kinds of movies, I love movies; and I always wanted to try and make one.

I was never that interested in movies. I was interested in them as a thing, but I didn't want to make movies. I always wanted to draw and paint.

I've been working in television for so long, since 2004, and I just worked nonstop throughout that time and I've learned so much. I've definitely done that 10,000 hours. I know the format really well and I feel comfortable in it. I'm excited about going into something I'm not so comfortable in, which is film.

Make film, shoot film, run film. Do something. Make film. Shoot anything.

At age 12 I had an obsession with Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and then proceeded to watch all the other Kubrick films I could including a doc called Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures in which it was revealed to me that he started as a photographer...I got a camera sometime shortly after, but spent many years just photographing flowers in my neighborhood.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

My contribution to film has always been negligible.

I just adore being on set. I adore storytelling. I can be on a set 70 hours a week and on those weekends, I'll still want to watch movies.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

Read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read...if you don't read, you will never be a filmmaker.

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse.

Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them

I make independent movies. I don't know how to do anything else. I don't know any other job that I could really get.

Working full-time as a filmmaker has been a dream come true.

Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.