Andrew Dominik Quotes

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.

I would love to produce a film.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

There is a director for a reason, because a director knows what's best for the movie. You just give your director as much as you can to work with, and hopefully, the decisions they make are going to be great.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

There's no way I see myself as a director. Direction is far too creative.

Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

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

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.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

The thing I really love about film is there's a really big sense of teamwork, and everyone has to do their job to the best of their ability to make the film work in the first place.