Ethan Coen Quotes

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.

Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film.

I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.

I love making movies.

Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to.

The reason I wanted to start directing is that as an actor I felt I came into a job late. There's a whole team of people who have been working on it for months before you start. You have this really intense period of filming and then you leave it, knowing that the director will work on it for another few months.

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.

Making movies was a real weird kind of adult experience. In a way it was like MIT, in that it was a great education. The big lesson is, people are people. They're smart, funny, creative people, but they're people.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a company that makes films and to be prolific and have a place to put all the ideas that are constantly bubbling up inside of me and that don't let me sleep at night.

The filmmakers always have a great level of control.

To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

See, a painting is much cheaper than making a film. And photography is, you know, way cheap. So if I get an idea for a film, there are many ways to get it together and go realise that film. There's really nothing to be afraid of.

I would love to produce a film.

I like making movies.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

It's physically and psychologically exhausting to make a film.

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

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Once I've finished a film I just want to get on and make another one.