Joshua Malina Quotes

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

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

When I was younger I didn't really know what a director did: I knew I loved movies and I figured the actors made it up! And then when you get to 12 years old you start thinking, What does a director do? It was really an organic beginning: this looks like something I want to do, I can't believe people get paid to do it!

I started making little short films with friends, and then I decided I wanted to get into the school play in high school.

I was going to make movies. I was the one in the family who was always rolling the video camera, making movies of my brothers around town, and then screening them for my parents. I still would love to make movies someday... that's something that really means a lot to me, and I know I'll have the chance to do it one day.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.

I want to entertain people, whether it be with a comedy, a drama or a movie. An idea's an idea.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I love making movies.

My intention is to do more films.

I produced and starred in 'Wake the Riderless Horse,' a short film that my buddy wrote and directed.

I've been doing a bit of screenwriting and producing, and even a bit of directing.

I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

One thing which no one knows about me is I could be very good director. Although I have not directed any movie so far but I am sure the day I start it, I would be very good at it.

I used to make little movies when I was younger. I'd make my friends be in them and then edit them.

So, yes, I wrote a script called 'Ben Is Back' that I got to make with a bunch of remarkable artists and craftspeople.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

When I was 10, I had a group of friends that I used to love to make movies with, and we made them growing up; we did it all through high school.

Once you turn on the camera, making a movie is making a movie. I don't care if it's $9 million dollars or $50 million dollars. You have bigger toys, bigger set, actors who are better paid, but once you turn on the camera, it's director and performance, and I don't find a big difference.

I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

For me, storytelling is the most interesting part of movie making.

I always try and do good films.

Directing a Hindi movie for the first time was easy because Hindi films have been batwing doors for me since 1992.

I love movies. I can't participate in my love of movie-making fully unless I'm producing it.