John Hillcoat Quotes

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Making films is hard. Awesome, but hard.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

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

Working on script development, casting, editing, and music is incredibly inspiring to me, and it's wonderful to see something you love come to life.

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

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

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.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

I love making movies.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.

When you're making a movie, it's a very interiorised world.

Making a film is a challenge.

I love having made a movie.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

I don't direct movies for a living.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

I'm a big movie fan, and I want to make movies in every genre. I want to make my romantic comedy one day.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.