Jim McKay Quotes

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

Ultimately, I want to direct a movie, so that's another thing, too, where I wonder what that will look like and how will I be able to manage.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

I directed some movies in the past, and I'd still love to do that. You know, the whole thing is a labor of love, I think.

I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me.

You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

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

There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

I would always direct my own stuff in Mexico.

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

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.

I like to produce my own movies.

The kinds of movies I make are not easy to get made.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

I don't get to make many features. It's not like that's something I can just snap my fingers and make happen.

Directors are the fulcrum of the movie. They guide us well, not merely rein actors in. Whenever we stray, they bring us back on track.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.