Shia LaBeouf Quotes

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

Being behind the camera is where I feel comfortable. I've found something that I feel I, as 'Michael,' can be as confident in as 'Johnny' was on the stage. It's great being part of the creative process. You're right at the start of an idea, and you get to see it all the way through till the end.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

Filmmaking is such a collaborative medium.

I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

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

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 think films are bigger than structure.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I am not born to make dreamy movies.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

I had grown up thinking of movies as something to eat popcorn with. Bergman and the other European directors were the first ones to open my eyes to film as art.

As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After 'Headhunters,' I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films.

Movies are not an art form where you get to kind of sit in your art gallery and paint, you know? You don't do that. You're spending a lot of somebody else's money.

For me, movie making is not business.

The creative process for a musician is very different than for a filmmaker. I have an idea, and I can pretty much execute it.

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

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

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

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