Joe Carnahan Quotes

I like the theater enormously, but I truly love films - the whole bizarre, boring process that it can be.

I think I am filled with excitement when it comes to doing films.

Aamir Khan in a sense, was my first teacher for filmmaking. He used to answer my doubts on the sets of 'Joh Jeeta Wahi Sikander.'

I like doing film, you know, single-camera.

With me, I probably work a lot more than people assume I do, but people don't realize how much work goes into writing and producing and making a movie.

Whether I'm acting or making it, at the end of the day it's telling the story; action, drama. You want the audience to feel it - the story, the action, the scene, or a particular shot. I just keep working on crafting my art, on how to make action movies.

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

I never felt being an actor or making a movie was an easy thing to do.

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.

The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.

I think film, to me, as a director, is about telling a story.

When I was shooting 'Mud,' every day was my favourite! I had so much fun on this film and loved working with all the cast and crew! It was a great experience.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.

I like very much to do movies.

I would love to produce a film.

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

It's such a drag to make a movie.

When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way.