Marilyn Manson Quotes

In film, you're painting a canvas. I got really excited about that.

I have great people surrounding me and helping me out. I'm totally in love with directing movies and I hope to do more of it.

I love movies; I grew up loving movies. I've always loved movies. I never thought about making movies until I took art classes and then I started studying different artists. As you study paintings, you see light and shadow, of course - Rembrandt, Eugène Delacroix. You start to understand the relationship between people and art, and images. For me, between movies that I watched and art, it was like, I'd love to make moving art. Moving pictures.

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

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

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.

Making a movie and not directing the little moments is like drinking a soda and leaving the little slurp puddle for someone else.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

I think directing is something I would really enjoy.

Making movies is what I'm good at. Cinema is the means through which I can best express myself.

Films are a director's medium. We're all stemming from the director.

I am eternally impressed and amazed by what directors do.

You never really know what the director has got in his mind as far as the scene visually and art direction wise, etc. Even if you do, sometimes there's a side of things that don't necessarily gel the way people intend. So there a bit of a mystical entity, film.

I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

As far as art and filmmaking is concerned, I don't see there's any separation; it's just one continuous thing.

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I did direct two short movies. I learned many things, and one of the things I learned was that I am not a director. It has to be visceral, and it's not for me. I feel much more comfortable acting.

Movies are collaborative, and that's part of what makes it a great experience. They're different from a lot of other art forms, but also it makes it seem like when you see the final product, you go, 'I wouldn't have done that. I wouldn't have done this.'

I think you should make movies as long as the story dictates.

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

Directing a film was something I always wanted to do, something that seemed an inevitability in my development as an actor.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

I've done every job in the world, and movies, the only thing close to a movie that I've ever done is it's kind of like being in a band.