Brenton Thwaites Quotes

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

That's one of the benefits of working on big budget films. You work with people who have a lot of experience and you get to learn a lot.

My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

The truth is, when I started to make films, I was terrified. I had a huge difference in what I was writing in the screenplay and what was on the screen after. Sometimes there was a big gap. Now, the more I have experienced, the more I do movies, the more I feel that the dream is closer to the screen. It's coming with experience.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.

I think if you don't feel passionate about the first movie you're doing, in the end the project will lack something because you don't have enough experience to make the movie something special.

I went to film school, so I certainly know how to make things quickly and cheaply. But at the same time, I have the experience of working with Steve Starkey for three years. I watched him produce some gigantic movies.

Yeah, the whole 'One Tree Hill' experience made me realize I wanna write, and produce, and direct as well as act. I'm interested in all facets of the industry.

Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

I think everything you do, whether it's low budget things when you're first starting out or full feature films or when you're working with Hollywood, you're always learning, all the time.

It's good to work with a writer-director.

I did a couple of short films when I was in Scotland.

As a producer, it's your job to bang on the table and convince studio heads why great movies should be made.

I made lots of short films, about nine or ten short films. And then I made a television film called 'This Little Life.'

Now that I've got a way in [to the industry] - because it can feel a bit like, "How can I possibly write a film?" - but now that I've got at least some experience in the film world, I'd absolutely love to do it again.

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty.