Peter Landesman Quotes

What got me into making movies was that I wanted to be a journalist.

I was attracted to filmmaking in college because of my love of storytelling. You can have such an impact and reach a broader audience than conventional journalism.

Simple stories... emerge as lovely films or television pieces.

At the core, I'm a filmmaker and a storyteller.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I always want to be telling stories in whatever fashion I can, and directing is really just understanding and learning a different element of that storytelling process.

Every story is different, every movie is different, every director is different.

I had been trying to make movies, but they were really hard to get made. TV wound up, by surprise, a much more fulfilling place to work. That said, I've always been drawn to make movies.

I like writing and directing. I enjoy telling stories, and I think it's born in a comedian to end up directing.

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films: I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell.

With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

I think you can do a lot with fiction, and in some cases you can say even more in fiction than you can in straight-up documentary journalism.