Nicholas Jarecki Quotes

I was fortunate to work with the biggest names of the industry; I would like to continue this journey of discovering myself as an actor and keep experimenting.

'Sunshine' is really an experiment for me to see if I am a filmmaker beyond having my own stories to tell.

As an actor, that's what you want. You want variety. I want to try things that I'm not used to and push my own envelope and see what I'm capable of.

I learnt so much from all my films, successful or unsuccessful.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

There was a time in my life when I tried a lot of different things, different looks. Between the ages of 17 and 22, there were a lot of bad looks. But I guess you learn from your mistakes. After that, I kind of found my style and what I like to wear.

My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way' changed their lives, but when they talk about 'Floor Sample,' they tell me, 'I was with you all the way.'

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

I think I'm still trying to find my voice as a filmmaker and finding stories to tell.

I don't really know who I am as an actor: the best thing would be to experiment with it for the next 30 years and never really find out.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.

I want to put everything I think I've learned about filmmaking and storytelling and put it to the test in other areas.

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

I really took filmmaking very seriously... It was an honor and then a crutch also, because at a young age, I was like, I guess I'm a serious filmmaker. I never set out to be a serious filmmaker. I just set out to make movies.

I still don't know what genre I fit into. I want to try my hand at different things and find out what I am best at. I want to discover myself as an actress.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.

Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?