Aaron Eckhart Quotes

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

Once I went to film school, I realized that film directing was actually much better than theater directing, because you kind of get to stay in control of it all the way through. You don't relinquish the piece to the actors like you have to in theater; you stay in control through the very end.

Every aspect of filmmaking has lured me. Although I'm an actor now, one day, I'd like to direct a film. It's not as though I'm all set to take the plunge; I cherish this dream of calling the shots, but only after I groom myself with the right kind of preparation and the technical know-how.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

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.

There are a lot of similarities with film and TV, but also a lot of differences, especially in the way they film stuff.

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

People have a different idea of how movies are made than they really are.

Motion picture making is a very, very involved affair. It is completely my baby. I'm a thorough professional. I plan films right from the conception of an idea to its final execution.

Directing film is the hardest thing I have ever done.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

A lot of the films now are more focused on the visuals than on the actors. I think all directors should go to drama school.

I am much more involved in the filmmaking experience on Mag Seven. I'm much more involved in story elements, casting decisions, the writing of the show, the blocking of the scenes.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.