Paul Auster Quotes

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I just love the process of filmmaking.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

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

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I'd like to make movies as a producer and a director.

I love making movies.

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

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

I like to produce my own movies.

I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

I like to say that films are never finished, they're only abandoned.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

Making 'Coraline' was one of the great filmmaking experiences of my life.