Donnie Yen Quotes

My parents worked in the film industry, but they both worked behind the camera, so I like to think that I have a really good understanding of how all the parts of the puzzle come together to make a film or TV show.

I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

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

I try to do as much as I can, every facet of filmmaking.

Directing, editing, and everything about filmmaking has definitely changed me as an actor.

Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.

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

Other than advances in technology and equipment, making a movie is the same as it was when I started, at least. I don't go back to the silent era.

Making a film is a challenge.

I love directing, and I will direct myself a few times.

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

The experience of an actual film from idea to screen will teach me more than most books and lectures.

I think that people should really understand what it takes to make a film.

When I was working in south films, I never understood how films were made.

I'd love to direct, I'd love to produce. I'd love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

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 had fun doing it, but acting ain't really my thing. I am more of a production/director type. I would rather be behind the scenes and organizing and putting things together like that.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

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

My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.