Sam Esmail Quotes

I'd love to direct more.

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

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.

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

I got to learn what does and doesn't work on screen. Because the turnaround is so fast, there's no messing around. You have to be on the ball.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

As far as I'm concerned, I make movies.

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything.

I still have my talent to produce and direct.

I don't see myself doing television, but I do see myself directing.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I'm more interested in producing than acting.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

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

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

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

I have no interest whatsoever in pursuing acting or becoming a mogul. I love writing and directing; I see those two jobs as the most critical in the making of a film.

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

I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

I want to produce and direct and write one day.

I want to do more work behind the camera.

I was a film major.