Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes

I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go.

I love directing.

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.

I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.

That's the joy of making a movie: watching all the elements come together.

As a filmmaker, I'm a collaborator first.

Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It's great for actors. It puts the story up front. It's not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.

I'm not the best filmmaker, but on the sets, it seems like everybody is having fun.

I am very much open to doing cinematography for any talented filmmaker, if the script is good.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

As a director and filmmaker, I love creating my own opportunity, and getting to share the love, in that way, by creating other opportunities for people that I admire, so that they can do something in a way they haven't done it before.

I like directing much better. It's more fun, that's all there is to it. It's essentially the same job, which is storytelling, but you have more control over the way you want to tell the story. It's a high. I love it.

My life is making movies. I like storytelling, and I've got a lot of stories that are stored up in my head that I hope to get out before my time is up.

Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.

I learned first of all not to be intimidated by any visual effects that I don't understand. It can all be learned. You can then use them as tools to tell your story. I also learned that you have to be really vigilant, the more complex the movie, to not lose yourself and to not lose sight of the priority.

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

The only way you can learn about making films is by making them, by putting your stamp on the thing.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

When you act in a film, you're inevitably surrounded by people you didn't choose, right down to the set painter. I like being able to pick the family I'm waking up to in the morning that's going to make this group effort to tell a story that applies to what's interesting to me at that stage in my life.

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

A film takes a lot of time, and yet not enough to share with the people you're making the movie with, I think.

It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't.

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