F. Gary Gray Quotes

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Filmmakers, they tell me they want to make movies. I say, 'Good, go out, buy a $500 camera, get some friends and make a movie. Don't go to Hollywood. Stay wherever you are.'

I ended up getting to do a lot of student films - no budget: somebody just wrangled up a camera and went to shoot stuff - and it was fun. It was great.

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.

The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

I didn't go to film school so my learning was done out in public and showed up on the screen.

I make movies I want to see.

I started when I was eight, doing super 8 films.

I've never done a studio movie, let alone worked for a network. Every one of my films has been independently financed.

If you want to make movies you need to think on a micro-micro level and figure out how to make them for nothing with people who really care about your movie and really want to make it.

I taught myself filmmaking on my own.

I thought I'd be on TV and movies - that's what I really wanted - and I can't believe I didn't need to do that. I did it on my own with just me and my camera. That's very, very weird.

There is going to be a 'Stargate: Atlantis' movie. Unfortunately I'll be making it by myself in my basement.

I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.

This is an age where you could put anything on YouTube; people can make films on their own.

I didn't go to film school; I studied fine art - I learned how to be a filmmaker on everybody else's money.

You can make a film with a phone and a computer if you want, if you have the time. So it's a world that is saturated with films and all kind of stuff, so it's such a blessing to be able to make a film and people care, and even if they say that it's a bad idea, at least they care and they're talking about it.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

Because of the cumbersome nature of filmmaking, it's only recently that it has become available to the masses, with digital equipment and laptop computers. You can now actually make a pretty serviceable movie for very little money by yourself.

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

You know, that's the reality, but I always shoot movies for the screen, because that's just the experience that I want to get out of it.

Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.

Video games are perfect to make into films because they are so visual.