Emile Hirsch Quotes

You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

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!

When you make a drama, you spend all day beating a guy to death with a hammer, or what have you. Or, you have to take a bite out of somebody's face. On the other hand, with a comedy, you yell at Billy Crystal for an hour, and you go home.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

Making a film is very hard work, and you live or die by the sword just a little bit every time you do it, but I wouldn't chuck it in.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

That's what so great about making movies. It's that you get to do stuff you never would be able to do in real life. You get to go to a recording studio, you get to go to Navy ships and fly all over the world for press. And it's just a great job.

I love escaping into character. It's a chance to try on people that you wouldn't be brave or stupid enough to be in real life.

Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain.

The process of making a movie is what I love. I thrive on that. It's an exciting miracle, a mad adventure. I love being part of it.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Making movies is a dangerous job. Because you are always the one who stands at the center of the universe when making movies.

I love making movies.

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

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

If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.

When you have three days to work on a scene, you can give all that love to the movie.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.