Dennis Hopper Quotes

Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.

I know that my mind is so A.D.D., and I want instant gratification - and photography can provide me with that - but at some point, I want to make an independent feature.

I make films about stories that I get interested in.

When I became a film-maker, all my favourite films, they weren't comedies.

As a director, what I'm trying to do is to create interesting stories.

Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

I prefer doing feature films.

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.

Ever since 'Star Wars,' there was a rash of how a movie was made. I remember that as a kid. I never really understood how movies were made until that movie, because it was such a technical accomplishment. Since then, you've seen more and more and more, for all different kinds of films, about what goes into the process.

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

There are different reasons to make movies.

Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.

Being a filmmaker is kind of like being a glorified spy.

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

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

That's the only way I can control my movie. If you shoot everything, then everything is liable to end up in the movie. If you have a vision, you don't have to cover every scene.

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.

It's incredible to see the creativity, beauty and hardships people capture when filmmaking is opened up and shared with the world.

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

Make movies. Don't make videos. Videos are evil.