Saoirse Ronan Quotes

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

When you're working on a film, it's intense and it's very all-consuming. There's not something in particular.

Film is like tech starts on the first day of filming and it never stops. There's never a moment when the audience comes in, you're just in tech forever, and I can't stand being on a film set. It's really tedious.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

It's totally thrilling to direct.

Honestly, I just like to make movies. The funnier the better.

I like to direct for the big screen.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I care about cinema even though I haven't made many films.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck.

Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

A movie is like a city. There's, like, 150 people working, and it's all because of something that came out of your head.

We all want to experience that in our lives - a moment when we're two feet off the ground - and making movies gives you that opportunity. It comes and it goes so fast that it's unreal, but it does happen.

I had so much of fun doing the action for 'Race 3.'

I have been a fan of movies from a very young age, and somehow, the magic of that - every single time I hear something or read something that could be made into a wonderful film or something somebody is asking me to be a part of - that connects. It just makes me feel like I'm going to be part of something magical again.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.

I love film very much. It's very special to me, and seeing how it all turns out is always just a magical moment for me.

It was really fun to work on 'The Predator.'

The frustration of a movie is that you are creating a new business every time you go off to make one, and in a funny way, that's what's exciting.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.