Adam Shankman Quotes

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.

When I made my first film, it was just an adventure. But after my first movie, I guess I got more of a feeling of what was happening around me.

I had always wanted to don the director's hat and was waiting for the right time.

I don't care about the size of the roles, or how they're marketed or billed or anything like that. I would love to be a part of stories that tell us about where we've come from, where we are, where we're going - with great directors.

I kind of romanticized what it was like to be a writer and director when I was in my early twenties. Working as a production assistant knocked that right out of me.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Eventually, everyone said, Why don't you direct? It would save time. And that's how it started.

When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process.

As a director, I get to have a much broader creative expression than as an actress.

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Watching John Lasseter's films, I think I can understand better than anyone that what he's doing, is going straight ahead with his vision and working really hard to get that vision into film form. And I feel that my understanding this of him is my friendship towards him.

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.

Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.

To say directing was a long-stewing ambition doesn't cover it. If you cut me open, you'd see it.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I think if you don't feel passionate about the first movie you're doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don't have enough experience to make the movie something special.