Madonna Ciccone Quotes

You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

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.

I like to produce my own movies.

I always think that the writer is doing the vast majority of the director's work, in a sense. If you're a writer who is also going to direct, you're doing all your preparation: You're already visualizing everything, you're imagining how the lines are going to be read, you see the blocking in your head, and you know the rhythm and the pacing.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I guess I probably see myself as a director. If I had to choose, I think that that's the aspect of the process that I'm most excited by.

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

It's nice when you're working in Hollywood and there's a movie you'd like to see that no one is making anymore. You make it yourself.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

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.

I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

I make movies I want to see.

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

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

After working for a while, I realized that acting was only satisfying about 30 percent of what interested me about the filmmaking process. Somewhere around age seventeen, I started to realize that if I'm very particular about the people I work with, then I can have the best sort of master class possible.

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 all by yourself, that requires you to have quite a bit of a point of view in order for anything to get done.