Diego Luna Quotes

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I'm trying to do the kind of projects that I want to see in the theatre.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

I feel like everyone wants to make a movie that they feel passionate about watching.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.

I love the intimacy and the passion and the danger that go into independent filmmaking. Because it comes out of a creative necessity. It comes from people who really want to make a movie and want to make a difference and want to grab an audience by the gullet and show them something different.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny.

I don't make films for other people; I make films for me.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

If Steven Spielberg brought me a movie four hours long and said, 'It has to go out this way,' I guarantee you that's the way it would go out.

As far as I am concerned, the first episode of Buffy was the beginning of my career. It was the first time I told a story from start to finish the way I wanted.

I just make the movies I want to see. I've always been that way.

Since childhood, I'd dreamed of making a film, but producers in France and Germany wanted to make commercial films with chinoiserie. I refused.

My dream is just to make zero-budget movies for the rest of my life, because I love that environment.

As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

The kind of work I do and the films I believe in, I had to take charge of making that kind of cinema.

I never limit myself when it comes to telling stories; I think people can see that in my body of work. It's just about, 'What's a great story? Is it unique? Is it a challenge?'

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.