Dylan Penn Quotes

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

I want to do more work behind the camera.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

I always wanted to design for films.

One of the great advantages of my time spent in movies and in basically every role possible, both in front of the camera and behind the camera, that I've gotten to see all these different ways that people work and the way movies are constructed from the inside out, from beginning to end.

I'm attracted to directors in general because I appreciate the work and the job they have to do. I watched the post-production, I watched the pre-production... post-production is something that I'm very interested in and I did spend a lot of time in editing rooms when I was young pretending to be sick.

I prefer working behind the camera.

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies.

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

People have given their lives to this industry to make movies compelling.

I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I've always been fascinated with everything behind the camera and in front.

I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.

I always thought that I would work behind the camera, because it's a more comfortable place for me to be, really.

My dream role is actually behind the camera. I want to direct.

I like to work in cinema everywhere.

A lot of hard work goes into making a film.