Greg Sestero Quotes

I want to continue to make beautiful movies. The most important thing is to be a part of beautiful stories, that's all I want. So I don't care if it's a Hollywood movie or an independent movie or a Spanish or American movie. I care about telling stories.

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

I feel I have been a part of some very wonderful films, and I have had it in mind when I was on the set, every day, that what I am doing has meaning.

I have always thought of films as stories for the world.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing. Filmmaking seemed to be a good compilation of all these skills in a way that allowed me to tell a story 'greater than the sum of its parts.'

Just because you've made a couple movies, you've done some good movies, you've been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobody's entitled. It's a business. If they don't see it, I can think they're wrong, but I'm not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film.

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

It's true, I'm the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesn't care. That's good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. It's about finding great scripts and bringing them to life.

Every movie has its uniqueness. You just do your best and go with it.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

I love making movies. But it's a lot of investing your heart and soul. It can be exhausting.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

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

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

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

The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.

I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.

I think ever since I was preteen I wanted to direct movies and tell stories.