Matthew Lillard Quotes

I would love to direct a movie, something I really like with a great cast. What a dream!

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

To do your first film is a dream.

I'd love to work with Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino, but these are dreams I don't need to rush to achieve. I'll be ready to make those movies when I'm ready to make those movies and they're ready to make them with me, if they ever want to.

Every actor wants to direct.

I think one of the main reason's Rick Rosenthal and Whitewater PIctures decided to 'get in bed with me' on 'Fat Kid' was because I came in with a strong business plan as well as a creative vision on how to make the film.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

The idea of working with David Fincher or Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson or Scorsese or Spielberg or any of the guys I really idolize is a dream for me.

I'd love to direct more.

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you.

My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

I can count on one hand the directors who actually directed me.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

No one wants to hear from the producer. He's the guy by the pool with a cigar in his mouth and a couple of lovelies on his arm. But when you're a director, they want to hear what you have to say about everything - the war, the world.

I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.

I always loved movies. I wanted to be in them! I always saw them and said, 'How do you do that?' It seemed like going to the moon. It was not a rational thought, but that's the only thing I wanted to do.

Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it.

To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

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

From the age of 14, I wanted to be a director.

I think there's this assumption that everybody would rather be a director, and I don't know that that's the case for me, so we'll see.

I have the soul of a director.

I always dreamt of being a director.

Cinema was always my passion and dream.