Gaby Hoffmann Quotes

I always loved doing a movie with Daldry. That's always a huge factor for me.

Every actor wants to direct.

I think it's rare for anyone that a really accomplished, amazing director calls you up and says, 'I want to make a movie around you, and I want it to be this.'

I want to work with Darren Aronofsky, Damien Chazelle, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and, of course, Majid Majidi.

I grew up on movie sets, I'm comfortable on sets. A movie set is like a circus. I don't understand why moviemaking has to be such an insane environment.

'The Player,' I loved so much because it was such a labor of love on all levels, and it was such an enormous honor to be in a Robert Altman movie.

'Butch Cassidy' was the only film I ever enjoyed making.

I have the most respect for Rick. You're always going to see a Shameik Moore and Rick Famuyiwa film.

Obviously I would love to work with all these great directors like the Coen Brothers, Tarantino. Robert Rodriguez is a dream director of mine.

Quentin Tarantino and Sam Jackson are the reasons I'm an actor.

Tim Story is a fantastic director, and I'm so excited to get to work with him.

Nobody ever starts out to make a mediocre, commercial film. You always think it's going to be something. And then, once you're done with your shooting, you have no control. You're just done, as an actor.

I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

I would love to do more films. I really like the whole process of doing that. I like how close you become to everybody.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

I would love to work with Cameron Crowe; he's definitely one of my favorite directors.

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

I don't really care where I work, actually, because you know making a movie is like living in movie world. There's such a secluded world, and the director is the king ruling the country, and everybody's building this little town to speak in symbolism.

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.