A. J. Bowen Quotes

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

I prefer movies because the money is better and certainly because you really know where you stand when you are making movies, and I have made a lot of them: 50-something - I don't know.

Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies.

I'm very happy in France making movies.

When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like. But you go into a room with 4,000 people or 2,000 people who know your movie, know the lines, and know the characters; it's really a lot of fun.

I thought that making movies was drab. I'd lived through that. And I didn't want to use my parents, ever... They didn't want to push me into this business.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

When I did '21 Jump Street,' I felt like I was a part of something great, but on a very large scale. Working with people that genuinely want to make good art or good work or a good film, that's what keeps me going.

I resisted the film business as long as I could, because of the big circus act and the amount of money that it costs to make films - I saw my father suffer through that.

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

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

I make more movies than I see.

I had no interest in really becoming an actress or doing that kind of thing... I just knew that I wanted to do something in making films.

The money is better in films and television. But in terms of acting, theatre is more rewarding.

I want to pursue a career in film.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

There was always a part of me that wanted to be an old-time director. But I couldn't do that. I'm not a pro.

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

As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

I don't want to say I'm never going to direct again, but directing's hard work.

I position everything else in my life around making movies.

As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.