Jon Favreau Quotes

The most difficult part of making movies is to keep making them. Maybe, you could make the biggest hit in the world, but then the big problem is what to do next and how to maintain devoted to a certain instinct that I have about films.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it.

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

I go into meetings with some film-makers and they literally have nothing to say, they're almost bored by their own material. I'd rather work with people who are very passionate and very animated about what they want to do. People who just want to tell stories.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

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.

Cinema has become my life. I don't mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

I love painting so much that nothing else matters.

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

You have to be insane to direct.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.

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

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.