Roger Corman Quotes

Film-making is a physically hard job.

I went to USC film school, briefly, which is a very traditional film school.

I like being outside and I like hard work.

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she had the right sensibility and that she could figure it [The Adderall Diaries] out.

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

I act, produce, and direct. They are three different jobs all within the same realm of creativity. I enjoy all of them equally, but ultimately, I'm an actor.

Most restaurant people work much harder physically, on a daily basis, than most entertainers. Though most people in entertainment complain more.

I love feeling exhausted after a good, hard, honest day's work.

I wanted to do films because I loved certain stories.

Guys do dives because they don't know how to work. Guys do flips because they don't know how to work.

I went to film school to direct.

I am so impressed with people who can really make a big movie, a good movie. The amount of work that goes into it is incredible.

When I was in NYU Film School I drove a taxi in New York for two years, I felt like I owned my own business with that little taxi.

I love learning on the set. But, directing is not something I want to do.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.

In film school, I knew I wanted to be a director, but I found out pretty damn quickly that nobody was just going to hand me a script to direct.

If I wasn't a trader, I would probably be in the film business in some capacity and writing in some other form. I went to NYU Film School and London Film School.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.

I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them.