Patrick Lussier Quotes

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

A big budget studio film is slower, they've got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Making movies is about creating illusions, and they can be subtle illusions, but it's all a cumulative effect as you make these little tweaks. It kinda adds up to something, hopefully.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

The process of making a movie has expanded in terms of effort and time for the director, doing commentaries for the DVD for example, finishing deleted scenes so they could be on the DVD, and doing things like a web blog.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

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

The organization that it takes to make a movie like 'Star Trek' is amazing, intimidating and fascinating.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

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

I would love to produce a film.

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

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

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

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

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.