James Dean Quotes

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

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

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

I like very much to do movies.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

Usually a lot of moviemaking is boring.

I kind of love working on film because television in live, that's tricky.

I had no idea, really, on my first film what I was doing.

I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

That's what interests me about film: directing.

Before I made a film, I thought it was easy.

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

I always loved experimenting in film.

I had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

I love filmmaking, and I love the process. And I would rather do nothing else. It's a privilege to be able to paint such big pictures, so to speak.

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.