Katharine Ross Quotes

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

I would like to produce, and eventually, I would like to direct.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

I like to make movies I like to watch.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

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

When you're writing, it's all up to you, and you don't have to make any compromises. And when you're directing, there's this intense pleasure you get from working with all these really talented people, and pooling the efforts towards a common goal. I like all the aspects of film-making.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

I want to make my own movie.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

I learned what I really love is making films, not the film business. I want to be on the set, meeting with writers, I want that freedom. I love it now.

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

For me, directing a film is like confining myself. I want to do something beyond direction. I can conceive stories, write screenplays, etc. That's better for me.

Film shouldn't be a pain. It's a creative process.

I like to produce my own movies.

I came to the cinema industry to become a director from the inspiration of Guru Dutt and Shantaram.

Filmmaking was the way I could write characters and not have to give them up to anybody.

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

As a director, you try to find what is creative.

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

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.