John Logan Quotes

Making 'Beloved' was an awesome experience.

By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'

I like working on big budget films.

Directing movies is the best job there is, that's all. I can hardly say a word after that. It's just a great job.

Work is my balm. I've just finished my work in Ketan Mehta's 'The Rising.' It's one of the best films I've done. Such a fabulous line-up of technicians and artistes. Above all, I got the privilege of working with Aamir Khan.

Obviously, I've been on sets before but nothing as big as 'Twilight.' You forget sometimes that you're on set of one of the biggest movies ever- so when you just sit back and think about it its just so incredible. It's such a great learning experience.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

Film work can be very interesting, but it also can be awfully boring because who creates the film? The actors? No. It is the director. It's his piece of work.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

The crew on 'Varsity Blues' was phenomenal.

It's not rocket science to make a movie.

It is good to get an all round experience especially when you have never been on a movie set.

Writing studio movies is the best job in the world... it's awesome.

I loved being on the set with my stepfather. I loved the magic of movies. I went on the set of 'The Mod Squad' - I mean, can you imagine? Just walking into a living room and then walking behind the living room, and it's just flat. There's nothing I love more than being on a sound stage.

What I love most is the art, is making art, acting and being on set, and being a part of the process of making a movie.

I love what I did in 'Death Sentence,' but that was a low budget action film.

We're in the business of making films, not striking or anything else.

I'm in a Bond film directed by Sam Mendes, with Daniel Craig. I want it to be perfect.

Maayanadhi' was a film I enjoyed working in.

I was watching 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' - the episode where Sabrina and her friend make a vampire movie for college. I wanted to see if it would be fun to make a horror movie.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you to know what I think'.'

This is my first experience working in a foreign movie, but the mechanics, I think, are pretty much the same all over; you still have to wait in the trailer.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.

I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.