Angelina Jolie Quotes

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

I do love directing. It's probably my favorite thing that I do.

I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.

I think I'm drawn to films more as a director with a directorial mind even as an actor. I make movies to make the films, not to act.

For me, to be perfectly honest, the part of my brain that was stimulated by directing was much more exciting than a typical day of acting.

Directing is a very long process, and I have to be in love with it if I want to give up two years of my life and live with it from beginning to end!

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

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

I love making movies.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whichever you'd like. In terms of making motion pictures, I write and direct and act. I guess you'd say I'm a filmmaker.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

Filmmaking, it has been my first love.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

To be an actor, you have to be self-obsessed, but when you are a filmmaker, you get a macro view. Every aspect of making the film is under your purview. And for me, that is a bigger turn-on than just being an actress.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

I love working with actors. I love visual things. I always intended to be a writer who directs and a director who writes.

The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.

To make movies you just have to want it enough. You have to have the passion for telling stories. You have to get by the love-of-movies aspect. You can't just be a movie fan.

I'd say that directing is in my heart. And that's where my focus is, like a laser beam. That's what I've been studying for a long time, and I think that everything that I've done before has contributed to the development of my craft as a director.

Filmmaking is really connected to life and all of the expressions that different arts found to allow access to life. Filmmaking touches on all of it.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.