Jeff Nichols Quotes

I would love to produce a film.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

I still don't know much about directing a movie.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

As for direction, I definitely do not have the patience or the resilience to make a film. Directing a film is very, very hard.

It is a challenge to direct any film.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

It's such a drag to make a movie.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I know nothing about making a movie.

Making a film is a challenge.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

My dream role is actually behind the camera. I want to direct.

I learned a lot about filmmaking from my dad. Starting when I was a child, I would listen to my dad as an actor, writer, director and producer talking about films - you know what the treatment would be in the opening, in the middle, and in the ending.

It takes time to write a script and properly make the film and edit it.

Actors play a small part in all the things that go into the making of a movie. I want to know about pre-production, post-production, shot divisions - everything.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I don't know how films get made, and I think I'll leave it to other people.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

I think a big bucket list item for me and Jonathan is to produce some of our own scripted films and series.

I'm gonna direct, like, a real movie. At least an hour and some change.