Alejandro Amenabar Quotes

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

My father was so in love with showbiz, all the different aspects - what we're doing here, making the movies, everything about it.

The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

Doing a movie is a stressful thing. You spend months of you life focusing into that one project, and I want to make sure I do something I really like or I'm really passionate about.

'Super 8' was a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun working with J.J. Abrams, who I think is a kid in a grown man's body, which is a great ingredient for any artist in our business. You have to be a kid at heart to be able to make believe, and his imagination is phenomenal.

My favorite on screen moments are when you are really there and you know you're creating something. That's so exciting... it's why you come to work.

No one ever sets out to make a bad movie. There's almost always incredible amount of passion and work put behind any given project. You just have to give it everything you got, and sometimes it works out, and a lot of the times it doesn't.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

Whenever you do a film, it's always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

I'm glad I'm getting to do interesting films.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

Every film you work on is different, and that's part of what it's like for anybody who works on a film, is to learn how to work with others. Learn from top to bottom. Actors have to learn how to work with the director and the director has to learn how to work with actors, and that's not just those two departments.

When I go into making a movie, personally, I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

I give as much as I can, and it's up to someone else to turn it into a movie. Good luck to you!

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.

Whether it be through television, or through music, or through dance, or through film, whatever it is, as long as it's the right project that makes sense, then I'm all for it.

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.

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

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

I think you get out of film school what you put into it. If you don't care about making movies, film school will do you no good.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.