Eric Johnson Quotes

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

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

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

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

When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.

I love having made a movie.

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

I became passionate about filmmaking. The thrill to make something out of nothing and to go out there to see whether it will work or not attracted me.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

I am a serious filmmaker, and I see the whole process of filmmaking more as a piece of art.

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

In a daydream sort of way, I think it would be pretty cool to direct a movie. But I have been on movie and TV sets and know it is hard work. I like directing it in my mind. It is easier.

I just see myself as a guy who's trying to make a film or, make art.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

With directing, you've got to find something and drag it up from its inception, and I'm at the early stages of doing that again. There's something all-consuming and addictive about that.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.