Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

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

I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time.

I approach film no differently than I approach a role. I want to make sure the movie is right, the characters are right, I can really bring something to it as a visionary, a storyteller. It's great to point a camera, but can you tell a story?

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I love the process of making a movie so much as an actor that I can only imagine I would love the process of being the director.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

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.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

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

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

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.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

I love making movies.

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

For me, the most important thing is the writing - and certainly the director. But if the writing isn't there, it doesn't matter who the director is!

You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.

As much as my primary vocation is that of an actor, if anything, I feel like I am more excited about filmmaking in general, so it's not always a specific role that I'm attracted to, but rather an entire piece that I want to be a part of.

To make films, it always begins with two words: what and how. First of all, you have to find a story, or what are you going to tell? And you have to find a way to tell it visually.