Taylor Lautner Quotes

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

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

When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it.

I think I would have been so much in awe of the movie set, the people and what everybody's job was, that I don't know if I would be able to concentrate on the character.

When you're a director, you really live whatever you do.

I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting the movie out.

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

When I am on a set and I am working, I am almost near-obsessive about it. I love the process.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

I would love to be able to do a film. I would love to be able to focus on what excites me in watching actors.

It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects.

A lot of filmmaking is all about filtering out the bullshit.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

I guess it doesn't matter how much homework you do. When you're on set, you gotta forget it and throw it out the window and, hopefully, some magic happens.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

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

I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.

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.