Jason Priestley Quotes

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

I would love to produce a film.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.

I love making movies.

New Mexico is the second Hollywood. No, it is, it is. They built all sorts of film studios.

Being in quite a few movies... there's always things that are changing about a film.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

I like going on location for films.

I love acting; I don't want to give up on it at all, but it would be nice to step behind the camera once in a while as well.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I guess I would model myself after the Bill Condons, the Frank Darabonts and the David Nutters if I were to direct a feature, which I would love to do, by the way.

A day on a film set is maddening.

Very often, things that people may think come from the writer, very often don't. There's a lot of cooks in the kitchen when it comes to making a movie. When you hear a line of dialogue that sounds kind of tinny, it's pretty easy to cite the screenwriter. But there's a lot of stuff that goes into making a movie.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

Stephen Daldry would be a director that I would love to work with as well as Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, and I'm very lucky to have worked with Isabel Coixet, who is also one of my favourite directors.

'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

Making movies is time-consuming and it's boring. You spend most of your time waiting between takes. It's like a big machine that moves slowly.

I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'