John Foster Quotes

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Making realistic films is basically about the style.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

I always loved experimenting in film.

I make different films now.

I wasn't one of those kids who dreamed of writing novels when I was 8 or 12. I wanted to be a film director. I wanted to make big action movies. I loved movies like 'Die Hard,' 'Predator,' 'Aliens,' 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'

I always wanted them to look like Hollywood movies; I just didn't know how to do it.

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

Definitely it is difficult to maintain the Hollywood stylized action that we had in 'Kick.'

I enjoy making all kinds of films. I love action films, war films, period films, adventure films.

I'm a filmmaker and I intend to continue making films of all kinds, in any manner, shape, or form - short or long.

Action scenes are not that different from other scenes.

I'd be really interested in making a dramatic, low key 3D film.

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

For a lot of my childhood, I didn't want to direct movies because I didn't really know what directing was.

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

By and large, the making of motion pictures is all about, 'Let's ratchet it up.' And I always think, 'We don't need to ratchet this up.' If you do, don't call it 'Captain Phillips' or 'The Maersk Alabama.' Call it something else, and then you have carte blanche to do anything, down to sea serpents and aliens.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

I really liked 'Super 8'. If Steven Spielberg is an executive producer of anything, you know that it's going to be amazing!