Joe Carnahan Quotes

I think that as a director, especially when it comes to writing the script, which I also do, and I'm also the first one to visualize this story, I think contributing to the film industry means I'm able to take the best of a story and translate it well into a movie that can be released in theaters.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

'Cliffhanger' got me in the best shape of my life, working at 10,000 feet up in the mountains. And everybody was great. I lived in Italy for seven months doing that movie. It was a great vacation.

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

I'd like to direct some, act in some of them, and produce.

After leaving ImageMovers, I sold two pitches to Fox Atomic, which I then wrote for them.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

I think my dream would be to move into film, purely because there's a definite beginning, middle and end to a project. I struggle a bit with such a big series that's going all the time.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

My perception of making a movie before I started making movies was that it would be like 'Spy Kids'.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

I like working on big budget films.

We're trying to make a movie that's interesting.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

When you're making a show or a movie, there are a million people and things in your way. As an actor, you're like a glorified session musician or player. You really are.