Laura Ziskin Quotes

We have to make some movies we have passion for, respect for.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.

When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I only make movies that are interesting to me.

Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.

One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do.

I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

I have the most fun writing and directing. And I always choose myself as the lead actor.