Nnamdi Asomugha Quotes

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

It's amazing what you can do without in terms of filmmaking when a story is really important.

I'm looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I'm building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself - because you can't possibly please everyone.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.

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.

Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think.

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

You're always just trying to make your film, tell the story you're trying to tell - best you can, you know.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing, really. I've tried it, and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

The essential nature of all filmed entertainment is that you area always straddling the line of whether or not you can realize something that you want to do.

I guess I gravitate towards stories that I like and directors that I want to work with, and I hope that it works out.

I am open to working with new directors as long as the script excites me.

Yes, there's more access to film than when I first came into the league, but because of it there's a desire to see more and study more and cover more.

I started writing screenplays myself and eventually directing.