Dan Fogler Quotes

I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just turn it on and just start doing voices and characters. I just loved it.

Since when I was little, I would always write a script and tell my sister, 'Read this line. I'm going to film it.'

When I was young, with my brothers, we'd make movies all the time, and that was never scripted.

I made movies all the time when I was a kid.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

I thought that Hollywood was just for geniuses and that directors come from three generations of directors. I was worried that I was not up to the challenge of making a movie. Then realized that all a director has to do is know what he wants to do.

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

I loved putting on stories as plays when I was just six. I was the director, the actress and the set designer; I cast my girlfriends in parts, and I suggested to the local kindergarten teachers that we do free performances for the children.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

I think by around the time I was about 8 or 9, the idea of filmmaking probably took hold. I made little Super 8 extravaganzas when I was a kid, the first being my own version of 'Romeo and Juliet,' and where I played all the parts except for Juliet.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

Every time you make a movie it's an adventure.

Growing up, I loved to play. Writing was a natural outtake of play. I realize now, having kids, that maybe that's unusual. Living out in the middle of nowhere, I entertained myself by writing.

I would come home and re-create every movie. Our backyard became a battleship, a war zone, a western town.

When I was little, I had this old video camera, and I set it up, and I would pretend that I was on comedy shows and soap operas and things like that.

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

I liked writing with my friends and making our own little stories. Making a movie like 'Spider-Man' never even crossed my mind.

Like any other creative person, I would make home videos, and I would make sketches with my friends, and I would make my own movies, so I have some love for the creative process.

As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.

I made tons of stop motion films with my friends in my neighborhood.

I realised that I enjoyed direction while making 'DCH.' The process of putting a film together and working with the cast and crew felt good.

The very first film I ever made, when I was seven years old, when I got my hands on a camcorder, was a remake of 'Poltergeist,' which I hadn't seen yet because my parents wouldn't allow me to. But I made my own version of it, and it starred my brother in a bed sheet.

As a kid, I was naive. One thing I did have a dream of, though: I had a dream I would make a kung-fu movie.

Actors betray. Technicians don't. Movies are made by technicians.

You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.