Diego Luna Quotes

I don't want to make a film to make a film.

The magic question is, 'What for?' But art is not for anything. Art is the ultimate goal.

I only make films when I have something to say.

I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.

The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it.

You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going.

I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

I didn't make 'Wild Bill' because I wanted to become a director; I just wanted to make 'Wild Bill.'

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.

To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously.

It's our responsibility as filmmakers to tell a story that's a human drama.

For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.

I just want to make cool art work that has some meaning.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

My passion for painting is so sacred and personal to me.

When I make a film, the yardstick is my mind. If I laugh at the jokes and feel sad at the serious undersides, then the subject works.

As a filmmaker, if your personality is not reflected in your movies, then what are you doing, why are you making films?

All my films are statements, especially when I write them.

Vidhu Vinod Chopra is the only man I see around who makes films because he thinks 'this is a story that needs to be told, so let's tell it.'

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.

No matter how big or new they are, I always look for the intention of the filmmaker first. Their intention has to be in the right place.

I think I'll always be making movies that intend to say something new.

When I write a movie, I write it for me.