Joe Swanberg Quotes

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I always wanted to direct. I always saw myself as a director.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

I always wanted to direct a film.

I love directing my music videos and writing video treatments, and I think it's all just because I love the visual aspect of it as well.

Any movie's only as good as the director.

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to disappear and allow the movie to just feel.

I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with.

I never think of myself as a celebrity - or even an actor, actually. I think of myself as a writer-director.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

I would love to be able to get behind the camera and direct actors. I think that would be a lot of fun.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me.

I would love to try my hand at directing and even producing in some kind of way. Something about that intrigues me, but for directing I could completely see myself trying.

You have to have the essential pleasure of making a movie. It's such a huge factor and adventure for a director because you really are the leader and the captain.

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.