Mat Kearney Quotes

I love directing. It's where my heart is, and it's the way my mind works.

I love film - it's like painting.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.

Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do.

Film has always been where my heart is.

In my own life, I've written scripts that I want to direct, so I would love to take my own creativity in a way where I could tell my own story. That does inspire me, the idea of becoming a director.

I love directing as I've got such a fantastic, a creative mind.

I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

I'd say I'm definitely an actor first and foremost, but I love filmmaking.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema.

It is my passion to direct movies.

I watch 'Goodfellas,' and suddenly it frees me up entirely; it reminds me of what great film directing is all about.

My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

It's totally thrilling to direct.

If I go home from a day of shooting, and I haven't at some point felt the magic, I'm really frustrated.

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a year and a half, and since then I've asked myself how I can emulate such artistry. That's really my motivation. I want to do something as good as my heroes have done.

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was it for me. I loved photography. I would work 4 or 5 hours a day. It was like a calling.

I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.