Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

The thing that really makes me happy is the real work and rehearsing and creating the character and the process of making the movie. Hollywood's not real.

What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.

I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

Being on the 'Alex Cross' set, and watching and learning about and paying attention to everything that was going on there, I realized, 'Here is a moment for me to learn.'

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.

I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.

If any fantastic filmmakers want to offer me roles, I'll consider it!

I love filmmaking as a process and acting is one element that is dear to me.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.

Movie-making is serious business. The director and the crew are already under a lot of pressure to give their best to the audience. Therefore, the best part for me as an actor is to act well in the movies and make a jolly atmosphere with the co-stars on the sets.

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

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.

Most of the time, I don't even watch what I do on TV. I go in, get the job done, and just know it's nothing. It's a job. Sometimes, I try something different, and I'll watch out of curiosity. Generally, I don't watch too much of what I do. Movies are basically the same, except it's more money spent on sets.

I realized the exciting place was behind the camera with the producer, director and so on.

One of my favorite things about doing movies is that you get to do different things you'd never do in real life.

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

I prefer working on films. I like the variety. There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then playing someone sweet for the next two. Films give you this opportunity.

In the first place, it's surreal to watch filming, to see the little ideas you had in your head and now Taylor Kitsch is doing it, or Salma Hayek. And then to see it loud and bright onscreen is a trip.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

The praise for 'Cape Fear' will help me work more artfully - I can work with real artists, like Robert De Niro and the directors, and then go to artland, which is the best land to be in in this world.

I spent a lot of time on film sets with my dad at work, and as a kid, that's a very appealing thing, to watch grownups get to play dress-up and pretend that they're different people - and then get paid for it!

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I love the process of working with a filmmaker and the writers and the actors.

I love the theater, I'd love to work in theater at some point, but I grew up with movies being something that I just clung to.