Aaron Eckhart Quotes

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I have a new respect for filmmakers, that's for sure, 'cause it's not easy. If I'm allowed to, I'll be directing for the rest of my life. I love the process.

I always find film-making a pleasurable experience.

For me, filmmaking combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films, painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

When you're actually making a film, it's just people on your back all the time wanting stuff and you're constantly having to it deal with them. It's probably the most time consuming of all the arts, but I do love it because it is a great mix of visual art and music and writing.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff.

To shoot a film is to organize an entire universe.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

When I go to see a movie, I never think about all the people it took to make it.

I like to produce my own movies.

People don't know what filmmaking is even after they have made ten films.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

Filmmaking is a creative process so there is a lot of collaboration that happens on set between an actor and director, but at the end of the day, we're there to actualize the director's vision and things happen organically.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.

It's been 50 years since I was on the roof of my parents' house shooting Hag in a Black Leather Jacket when I didn't even know there was such a thing as editing. I thought you just shot the film and showed it. That's exactly what I did. I'm not that different 50 years later.

I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.