D. B. Sweeney Quotes

I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.

As a filmmaker and film student, I think it's really interesting to hear what a director did and how they figured out how to do things.

Most of all, I really wanted to become a filmmaker, and I've used every acting experience to just turn it into film school.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.

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

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

If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.

I made shorts films, learning the dos and don'ts. Most importantly, I've been editing all these short films. Nothing can teach you filmmaking like editing can.

That's what interests me about film: directing.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

I like to make films about my heroes.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

You need to be a good filmmaker to make a compelling two-minute film as well.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

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.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

I like the opportunity to make films.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.

I like to direct for the big screen.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.