Leslie Cockburn Quotes

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

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

I've not had any interest in running a movie studio, but I want to make one feature film.

If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.

I made a lot of short films before making a feature film. Actually, I learnt film-making by making short films.

I graduated from the American Film Institute in 2010, where I studied as a director, and came out with a few features I really wanted to make.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Film-making is a physically hard job.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

Do you know what I'm working on now? My first feature as a director.

I went to the University of Toronto to study the history and theory of film, in the back of my mind thinking I'd go to NYU film school and see if I could make a career of it.

I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

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

I'm a believer in film school.

I co-wrote and produced 'Sticky Fingers' with Catlin Adams, who directed it. I learned a lot writing and producing with Cat. I spent as much time as I could in the cutting room with her. All the producing experience that I had helped.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

I'm trying to make as many films as I can.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it.

I've directed independent film.

It was kind of intimidating to make a feature without that much experience.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.