D. J. Cotrona Quotes

I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years.

Everything that is somehow related to direction and filmmaking fascinates me, like cinematography.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

I grew up making films and always thought that's what I wanted to do.

I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just show me different parts of the world and people. So when I was about six, I decided that that was what I wanted to do: make movies.

By the time I was 21, I knew what I wanted to do, and that was to direct films.

I like making movies.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

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

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.

I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.

I love working with a lot of different films and a lot of different people.

I love making movies.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

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.