Damien Chazelle Quotes

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

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

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

When you are scripting, the scene, the dialogues, everything comes before you, taking final shape. That is truly the most creative aspect of filmmaking and that is what I enjoy the most.

You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I think I might want to get into development, as in developing my own sort of piece, whether it be for the stage or the big screen or for television.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

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

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

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.

I guess what I enjoy most is directing, because it incorporates all aspects of filmmaking. Directing is in the same line as acting - both are popularity contests, and in both you're trying to tell a story through the film as a medium.

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

Filmmaking is a real craft.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

If you're writing, it means getting up and writing all day, and if you're filming, it's getting up and filming all day. I get up, go to my computer, write, turn it off, and go to bed. That is a Clarkson day.

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

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

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

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