Eric Roberts Quotes

One day, I want to make a PG film.

Making a movie is a weird combination of planning and the absolutely unexpected.

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment.

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

I would love to work with Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Omar Epps, Martin Scorsese, Josh Mond, Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David O. Russell, just to name a few. Those guys are absolutely brilliant at what they do.

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

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

I thought about making movies. It hit me when I was about 14, 15 years old.

You usually never know what you're going to do when you're making a movie.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I just don't see very many films. Because I make them.

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

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.

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

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

I make more movies than I see.

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.