Ryan McGinley Quotes

To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

My true social media passion is making creepy short movies on Instagram.

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

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

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.

I used to make short films even as a kid. I used to have a camera and play around with it. So, I was always interested in the process and telling stories. I've always wanted to direct.

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

Movie-making is a very creative medium of expression.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

When I went to Jamia, I thought I wanted to be a cinematographer or photographer because I liked telling stories in pictures, but my teachers explained that if you want to tell your own stories then that is what a director does.

At the end of the day, filmmaking is all about telling stories, and I'm just doing my part.

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs. It's not as though you do that enough and then graduate - you sort of need to make a conscious decision to work in a different way.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

He was such a fabulous drama coach. What better person to have than Alfred Hitchcock? His work as a director was impeccable. I learned so much.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.