Gregory Smith Quotes

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.

I just love being on a movie set. I like making movies.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

My father was a director and producer, so when I was a little kid, he would take me to movies and show me what's good and what's not good and why, and often that would take me to a conversation about directing.

When I began my career, I had films with the biggest film-makers in the country.

It's such a thrill walking onto a film set.

When I was working in south films, I never understood how films were made.

There were certain films where I went, 'Oh, my God, I'm doing a movie.'

It is always interesting being on films sets - I have done it before with other actor friends - and I just find it fascinating. I just love that collaborative film family that develops around a project.

Film is a collaborative art form. I don't know why you wouldn't recognize the stunt performers.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

I've been on sets my whole life.

Hollywood is a town; it's not a medium. And cinema is a medium you can practice anywhere.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.

In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you're doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you've still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

I don't make movies because I love to act. I make movies because I like to make movies, and I like to be a part of that process.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

The thing is, making movies as an actress, you learn so many things. Like when you're making a movie with Quentin Tarantino you're just at the best cinema school ever.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

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

I grew up the son of a director and grew up on sets myself, so I was the kid getting dragged around from this set to that set and I loved it. There's something about it which is really interesting.